She Who Writes

is a heartfelt memoir, a collection of lessons learned from the various traumas and challenges faced by Annika Spalding. After years of living with the impact of trauma, Annika believed that the best way to survive was to play by the rules and stay silent. It. Did. Not. Work. In fighting fear to face her truth, Annika found freedom in rewriting her story, and eventually found her voice. Despite writing books, blog posts and many social media captions, it took a long time for Annika to finally pen her own story. Giving herself permission to put her experiences into a memoir was a turning point because it was simultaneous with the level of healing she had begun. Where she was once dismissive of her experiences of childhood sexual abuse and domestic violence, gaslighting and betrayal, mental health decline and emotional disconnection, she finally addressed it all through counselling. She stopped looking outside of herself for clues on how she should heal, and instead took steps that just felt right. Medication, counselling, boundaries. It's been beyond transformational and this memoir encompasses the journey. "What I want for you to know is that you can come from an adverse background and still create a life you're happy to live in. You can experience trauma in the past and still heal. You can experience trauma now and still have potential. It is not the trauma or the aftermath of it that defines us, it's who we are underneath it all, despite it all." Annika Spalding Annika invites you to put fear aside as you read and know that you too can rewrite your story.