THE WOMAN I ONCE WAS

Some books are written from knowledge. This one was written from what it cost to survive.THE WOMAN I ONCE WAS is an intimate and deeply honest book born from a painful personal experience. Valérie Vale writes from inside the moments many women know but rarely speak about: loving too much, staying too long, doubting yourself, losing pieces of your identity, questioning your worth, and trying to understand how someone you trusted could leave you feeling like a stranger to yourself.Through love, betrayal, attachment, loneliness, self-doubt, boundaries, grief, and the difficult process of rebuilding, the book moves through many of the emotional realities women encounter throughout life.It does not pretend that healing is simple. It does not offer perfect answers. Instead, it tells the truth about what it feels like to lose yourself in another person, and what it takes to slowly find your way back.Written with vulnerability, intensity, and lived experience, THE WOMAN I ONCE WAS is for the woman who has ever looked at herself after everything she survived and wondered:Who am I now?