Books by: Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends Books by: Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends
A Mental Health Memoir

Splintered

The therapy was supposed to stop the night terrors. What it produced instead was a family.

Two years of EMDR sessions surfaced the interior selves that had been doing the work of survival for decades: each one formed at a specific moment of breaking, each one carrying what the whole could not. This is their account, in their own voices. They all sound different. They are all her. And they are all home now.

Soon available with Rubies in the Wilderness in tête-bête flip book format.

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Splintered

Splintered: A Mental Health Autobiography

The therapy was supposed to stop the night terrors. What it produced instead was a family.

Over two years of EMDR sessions, the interior selves that had been doing the work of survival for decades were given voice; each one formed at a specific moment of breaking, each one carrying a specific weight so the whole could keep functioning. The four-year-old burden bearer. The adolescent who held the secrets. The musician who called herself the murderer. The one who paid penitence for thirty-one years. The biological father who died at twenty-three and came back to heal the children his daughter had been. And the last one, the Sparrow, who entered in tears of joy and relief, the only one so blessed, because the work was finally done.

This is their account, in their own voices. They all sound different. They are all her. And they are all home now.

Soon Available with its companion memoir, Rubies in the Wilderness, in tête-bête flip book format.

Books by: Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends

Books by: Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends

Fiction to faith to self-help, my books open minds without being pushy. Writing is as natural to me as breathing, and every one begs the question: What if?

Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends

Mia Bowman-Mays is a multi-genre author with prolific insight into the world and how we were created to be. This is seen in all of her publications, whether fiction, non-fiction, spiritual-fiction, spiritual non-fiction, or self-help.

Ms. Bowman hopes to be one of many authors who decide to step out and walk in their created purpose. This site is a gathering place for her work and the work of friends who share that calling. Our goal? To lift authors up where they belong and create an Information Army!

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An orchard is not skimmed; it is walked. A Tended Reading™ is a book built to be walked.

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