Home Is Within You - A Memoir of Recovery and Redemption

2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner—Best Memoir in the Personal Struggles/Health Issues Category
Two-time 2023 NYC Big Book Award Winner—Memoir and Non-Fiction
2023 International Latino Book Award Winner—Most Inspiring Non-Fiction, Honorable Mention
Dear Son, I’m going to tell you a story, the most difficult one to share. 
As a young Latina and Native American lawyer and former wife of California’s attorney general and treasurer, Nadia Davis has long been subjected to public scrutiny. In this powerful homage to finding one’s worth in the face of mental health struggles, addiction, and public shaming, Davis shares her remarkable story. She reveals the depths of the darkness she went through, while gracefully offering transformational healing and an end to the choking grasp of shame. 
Lyrical and captivating, Home Is Within You recounts the author’s experience of trauma and addiction amid a highly publicized abusive relationship. Davis is brutally honest about her experiences and generous in revealing the paths she found to wholeness through spiritual advocacy, healthy co-parenting, and a dedication to preventing generational trauma. 
Home Is Within You shares one woman’s courageous journey to recovery as a mother and as a woman, and her narrative is a defense of privacy, parenthood, and autonomy. 

List of contents

Preface 
Introduction 
Dear Son, when I visited the angels, you were there. 
Chapter 1 
Dear Son, poverty is not living in a small house, it is living in a small world. 
Chapter 2 
Dear Son, you are not a body nor the thoughts your mind makes. 
Chapter 3 
Dear Son, this too shall pass. 
Chapter 4 
Dear Son, justice is but an idea, unless someone makes it real. 
Chapter 5 
Dear Son, the truth is the truth and it must win. 
Chapter 6 
Dear Son, always wear your seat belt. 
Chapter 7 
Dear Son, any time you ask for help, you deserve an award. 
Chapter 8 
Dear Son, you are the best thing that ever happened to me. 
Chapter 9 
Dear Son, please make self-care your best friend. 
Chapter 10 
Dear Son, you can make it through anything in life, and are never alone. 
Chapter 11 
Dear Son, if anyone hurts you, I got your back. Our Creator takes care of the rest. 
Chapter 12 
Dear Son, guilt is ok. Shame never is. 
Chapter 13 
Dear Son, you are not mere DNA. 
Chapter 14 
Dear Son, if you want to go quicker, go alone. If you want to go further, go together. 
Chapter 15 
Dear Son, truth is your identity. 
Chapter 16 
Dear Son, good and bad come in waves, but the truth remains the same. 
Chapter 17 
Dear Son, the end is often the beginning. 
Chapter 18 
Dear Son, courage is often a verb. 
Chapter 19 
Dear Son, never stop growing or striving to live wholeheartedly. 
Chapter 20 
Dear Son, I got you. You got me. We got we. Family. 

About the author

Nadia Davis is the mother of three sons and is a writer, attorney, and kundalini yoga instructor. She graduated from UCLA with a degree in sociology, and from Loyola Law School with a Juris Doctor. Nadia became the youngest Latina and Native American in local office when she was elected to the Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Trustees in November of 1998. 
She has received numerous awards for her work improving the lives of others, including the John F. Kennedy Jr. Service Award, the National Women’s Political Caucus Woman of the Year award, and LULAC’s Hispanic Woman of the Year. Her journey of recovery from trauma, a near-death car accident, public shaming, and addiction is an inspiration to anyone seeking a way out of darkness into the light of knowing their infinite true self. Nadia lives in Southern California. 

Summary

2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner—Best Memoir in the Personal Struggles/Health Issues Category
Two-time 2023 NYC Big Book Award Winner—Memoir and Non-Fiction
2023 International Latino Book Award Winner—Most Inspiring Non-Fiction, Honorable Mention
Dear Son, I’m going to tell you a story, the most difficult one to share. 
As a young Latina and Native American lawyer and former wife of California’s attorney general and treasurer, Nadia Davis has long been subjected to public scrutiny. In this powerful homage to finding one’s worth in the face of mental health struggles, addiction, and public shaming, Davis shares her remarkable story. She reveals the depths of the darkness she went through, while gracefully offering transformational healing and an end to the choking grasp of shame. 
Lyrical and captivating, Home Is Within You recounts the author’s experience of trauma and addiction amid a highly publicized abusive relationship. Davis is brutally honest about her experiences and generous in revealing the paths she found to wholeness through spiritual advocacy, healthy co-parenting, and a dedication to preventing generational trauma. 
Home Is Within You shares one woman’s courageous journey to recovery as a mother and as a woman, and her narrative is a defense of privacy, parenthood, and autonomy. 

Product details

• Authors: Nadia Davis
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2023
• EAN: 9781954854949
• ISBN: 978-1-954854-94-9
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Memoirs, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems