Maggie Made Me

Maggie hurt me. Maggie loved me. And somehow, both were true.Stephanie grew up learning to read the emotional weather of every room she entered.Her childhood was filled with love and instability, laughter and addiction, bigChristmas mornings and broken promises, family who stepped in when others steppedaway, and a mother she spent nearly forty years trying to understand.Maggie Made Me is the story of a daughter who carried pieces of her mother intoeverything that came next: friendship, motherhood, marriage, faith, ambition, and thedetermination to build the safe home she had always wanted.From an Appalachian childhood to becoming a young mother, a nurse practitioner, awife deeply loved, and the mother of three children who always knew where to findher, Stephanie's story is not about pretending the past was good because she survivedit.It is about deciding what to do with what you were given.Maggie gave her the beginning.Stephanie did the work of becoming.A memoir about mothers and daughters, addiction and forgiveness, chosen family, faith, andlearning that healing does not require forgetting where you came from.