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Find Your Way Back: How to Write Your Way Through Anything
Award-winning freelance journalist Javacia Harris Bowser is convinced that writing is a superpower. She sees her life as proof of it since writing has helped her navigate marriage, crisis of faith, and body image issues. It also helped her to beat cancer.
As a Black woman from the South, Javacia has used the written word to explore issues of gender and race as well as religion.
Find Your Way Back is a collection of essays that demonstrate how Javacia has used writing to achieve some of her wildest dreams such as being a public speaker, having her own column, and being her own boss. The book also explores how writing, self-love, and faith helped her overcome her worst a cancer diagnosis in 2020.
Javacia’s goal is to show readers how writing can transform their lives as well. The book includes prompts throughout to help readers start their own writing journey.
This book is for the woman who has wanted to write since she was a girl but struggles to find the time or the courage to put her words on paper. Find Your Way Back shows that instead of putting writing on the backburner when life gets turned upside down, we should turn to it to help life make sense again.
As a Black woman from the South, Javacia has used the written word to explore issues of gender and race as well as religion.
Find Your Way Back is a collection of essays that demonstrate how Javacia has used writing to achieve some of her wildest dreams such as being a public speaker, having her own column, and being her own boss. The book also explores how writing, self-love, and faith helped her overcome her worst a cancer diagnosis in 2020.
Javacia’s goal is to show readers how writing can transform their lives as well. The book includes prompts throughout to help readers start their own writing journey.
This book is for the woman who has wanted to write since she was a girl but struggles to find the time or the courage to put her words on paper. Find Your Way Back shows that instead of putting writing on the backburner when life gets turned upside down, we should turn to it to help life make sense again.
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164 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 15, 2022
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About the author
Javacia Harris Bowser
1 book111 followersJavacia Harris Bowser is an award-winning essayist and journalist and the founder of See Jane Write, a website and community for women who write. Javacia was included in Southern Living magazine’s list of Innovators Changing the South, alongside household names like Dolly Parton and Reese Witherspoon and is a recipient of the 2022 Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship. With a focus on women’s lifestyle, wealth, and wellness, Javacia has written for a number of local, regional and national media outlets including USA Today, Business Insider, HerMoney.com, Good Grit magazine, and The Birmingham Times. In 2020, her column for Birmingham magazine was awarded Best Magazine Column by the Alabama Press Association. As a breast cancer survivor, she's used writing to get through some of life's toughest moments, but she also believes we all have the power to write our way to the life of our dreams.
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March 31, 2022
That at any age and stage in your life, you can find your voice and sing your song to be happier.
An inspiration to the core! I want to call the collection of Javacia's essays personal stories woven into a beautiful necklace every woman will proudly like to wear. You meet yourself now and then in the articles, and you celebrate your womanhood with pride.
There is poetry of words, thought, and magic that will empower you.
A word more will become a spoiler alert! So grab it, read it and empower yourself!
An inspiration to the core! I want to call the collection of Javacia's essays personal stories woven into a beautiful necklace every woman will proudly like to wear. You meet yourself now and then in the articles, and you celebrate your womanhood with pride.
There is poetry of words, thought, and magic that will empower you.
A word more will become a spoiler alert! So grab it, read it and empower yourself!
March 27, 2022
I experienced a variety of feelings reading this essay collection. Full disclosure, Javacia was brought into my life as a friend after reading one such essay over a decade ago. Since then I have had the privilege of reading many of her pieces and every single one has sparked further thought while also sharing a new side to a valued friend.
What I took away from this collection is that Javacia continuously recognizes fear, interrogates it, and chooses to live and thrive anyway. She is passionate not just about other people, but also her own growth. I am excited to see how she continues that growth and how I, also, can interrogate my own fear and choose to persevere anyway.
What I took away from this collection is that Javacia continuously recognizes fear, interrogates it, and chooses to live and thrive anyway. She is passionate not just about other people, but also her own growth. I am excited to see how she continues that growth and how I, also, can interrogate my own fear and choose to persevere anyway.
March 14, 2022
If you're ready to laugh, to see yourself represented, and to cry while not being able to put a book down, this one is for you. Javacia is an inspiration and this book is so on brand; it's uplifting and encouraging, with Javacia's approachable voice making it feel like words from an old friend. If you're a writer, you'll enjoy it even more. Seriously, this book is for YOU.
May 13, 2022
This is a book of short essays that are so personal you feel like you have known Javacia forever. This book is a little bit memoir, a little bit about writing, and a whole lot about supporting women. If you need to write your way through something tough, this will provide the encouragement to do so.
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