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Choosing Softness: The Girl Who Survived What She Never Deserved
They tried to harden her. She chose to stay kind.
Choosing Softness is a gut-wrenching, breathtakingly honest memoir of a woman who survived every kind of abuse, and still chose love. Still chose empathy. Still chose to show up, again and again, with a heart that refused to close.
In this unforgettable debut by Carys Moore, readers are taken inside the raw, intimate story of a girl who was emotionally erased, a mother who raised her children through fear and survival, and a woman who was told she was "too much" while enduring more than anyone ever should. From her stepfather’s cruelty to the manipulative love that became a prison, Moore writes with searing vulnerability about the pain that shaped her, and the radical grace that saved her.
This is not a story about revenge. It’s a story about resistance. About softness as survival. About loving others when you were never fully loved yourself.
For anyone who has ever felt invisible, too tender for this world, or punished for their compassion, Choosing Softness will leave you seen, shattered, and whole.
This is not the end. This is the beginning of your becoming.
Choosing Softness is a gut-wrenching, breathtakingly honest memoir of a woman who survived every kind of abuse, and still chose love. Still chose empathy. Still chose to show up, again and again, with a heart that refused to close.
In this unforgettable debut by Carys Moore, readers are taken inside the raw, intimate story of a girl who was emotionally erased, a mother who raised her children through fear and survival, and a woman who was told she was "too much" while enduring more than anyone ever should. From her stepfather’s cruelty to the manipulative love that became a prison, Moore writes with searing vulnerability about the pain that shaped her, and the radical grace that saved her.
This is not a story about revenge. It’s a story about resistance. About softness as survival. About loving others when you were never fully loved yourself.
For anyone who has ever felt invisible, too tender for this world, or punished for their compassion, Choosing Softness will leave you seen, shattered, and whole.
This is not the end. This is the beginning of your becoming.
180 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 12, 2025
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