A Memoir
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A Memoir of Loss, Love and Coming Home to Yourself
This is not a book you simply read. It is a book that reads you back.
The ebook is almost here. Read the opening chapters now — and be first to know the moment it launches.
Read the first chapters freeThe Descent
Sacred Journey is the story of a woman who lost everything she was told to hold onto — and found, in the dark, the one thing no one can take.
It moves through grief, the mother wound, and the long arc of the heroine's journey: down into the underworld, and back up into the light. Maria writes from lived experience and from the sacred sites that shaped her — the red earth of Uluru, the caves of Mary Magdalene, the fire of Córdoba.
I am not offering self-improvement. I am offering what the underworld offered me: descent, integration, and sovereignty.
It is a memoir, but it is also a map. Every reader who has been undone by loss and asked who am I now will find their own road in these pages. The book opens the door. The work takes you home.
A book that reads you back
…you were mothered without ever quite being met, and the ache never left.
…grief or midlife has taken the floor out from under your life.
…you are done being fixed, and ready to be met at the depth where the real wound lives.
Advance praise
"I read it in one sitting and wept twice. It named things I had carried in silence my whole life."
— Beta reader, Skool community"Fierce and tender at once. This is the rare book that does not look away from the dark with you."
— Eleni, London"Part memoir, part initiation. I underlined half of it. I will be returning to these pages for years."
— Janelle, CaliforniaBe first to read it
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