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    Redefining Family: A Birthmother's Path to Wholeness: Own Your Path
    Turtle Envy: How Facing the Fear of Diving Added New Adventures in Life and New Depths in Love: Own Your Path, #2
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    Own Your Path Series

    By A. K. Snyder

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    Pregnant at seventeen, she makes an adoption plan.

    What will happen to her child?

    What will happen to her?

     

    Alycea is determined to create a better life for her baby and for herself. The only path she can see is placing her baby for adoption. In an industry stacked against birthparents, she must fight for her rights and her child's best interest. When the baby is born, Alycea breaks her own heart to spare her daughter's. But is the sacrifice worth it? Will her daughter be happier and healthier with her new family? And will Alycea ever be okay?

     

    Twenty years of a birthmother's life are exposed in this bare-bones memoir of open adoption. It will break your heart, then heal it, with a new perspective on how we define family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWandering River Press
    Release dateJul 31, 2020
    Redefining Family: A Birthmother's Path to Wholeness: Own Your Path
    Turtle Envy: How Facing the Fear of Diving Added New Adventures in Life and New Depths in Love: Own Your Path, #2

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      Turtle Envy: How Facing the Fear of Diving Added New Adventures in Life and New Depths in Love: Own Your Path, #2
      Turtle Envy: How Facing the Fear of Diving Added New Adventures in Life and New Depths in Love: Own Your Path, #2

      Turtle Envy: How Facing the Fear of Diving Added New Adventures in Life and New Depths in Love: Own Your Path, #2

      A. K. Snyder
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      Learn to scuba alongside Alycea, a claustrophobic newbie determined to overcome anxiety and explore the reefs.  After a failed scuba class, Alycea swore never to dive again. But when her husband fell in love with the sport, she faced a  decision: overcome the fear, or accept her fate as a bubble watcher. Her identity as self-reliant blocked her from trusting her dive buddy spouse, and this conflict extended beyond the water. Was her independent streak harming her diving as well as her marriage?  In lyrical prose, this memoir will have you cheering for small wins and reflecting on what it means to trust your partner.

      Learn to scuba alongside Alycea, a claustrophobic newbie determined to overcome anxiety and explore the reefs.  After a failed scuba class, Alycea swore never to dive again. But when her husband fell in love with the sport, she faced a  decision: overcome the fear, or accept her fate as a bubble watcher. Her identity as self-reliant blocked her from trusting her dive buddy spouse, and this conflict extended beyond the water. Was her independent streak harming her diving as well as her marriage?  In lyrical prose, this memoir will have you cheering for small wins and reflecting on what it means to trust your partner.

    • Redefining Family: A Birthmother's Path to Wholeness: Own Your Path
      Redefining Family: A Birthmother's Path to Wholeness: Own Your Path

      Redefining Family: A Birthmother's Path to Wholeness: Own Your Path

      A. K. Snyder
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      Pregnant at seventeen, she makes an adoption plan. What will happen to her child? What will happen to her?   Alycea is determined to create a better life for her baby and for herself. The only path she can see is placing her baby for adoption. In an industry stacked against birthparents, she must fight for her rights and her child's best interest. When the baby is born, Alycea breaks her own heart to spare her daughter's. But is the sacrifice worth it? Will her daughter be happier and healthier with her new family? And will Alycea ever be okay?   Twenty years of a birthmother's life are exposed in this bare-bones memoir of open adoption. It will break your heart, then heal it, with a new perspective on how we define family.

      Pregnant at seventeen, she makes an adoption plan. What will happen to her child? What will happen to her?   Alycea is determined to create a better life for her baby and for herself. The only path she can see is placing her baby for adoption. In an industry stacked against birthparents, she must fight for her rights and her child's best interest. When the baby is born, Alycea breaks her own heart to spare her daughter's. But is the sacrifice worth it? Will her daughter be happier and healthier with her new family? And will Alycea ever be okay?   Twenty years of a birthmother's life are exposed in this bare-bones memoir of open adoption. It will break your heart, then heal it, with a new perspective on how we define family.

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    A. K. Snyder

    A. K. Snyder writes personal narratives that tackle major life transitions. With unconventional lyricism, she lays out the heart of a story in bare bones language. She also writes speculative fiction, with a focus on how we can apply technology to solve our most unsolvable issues. Her short stories and flash fiction tend to delve deep into a single emotion and carve a way forward through difficult circumstances.  Her work has been published by Fireside Fiction, John’s Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, and Transmundane Press. Memoirs include Redefining Family: A Birthmother’s Path to Wholeness (January 2020, Wandering River Press) and Turtle Envy: Scuba Diving as an Anxious, Cursing Newbie (June 2020).  A. K. Snyder lives with her husband in Florida. She is a member of the Florida Writers Association, and she serves on the board of Tampa Writers Alliance. If she’s not writing, she’s most likely kayaking the local rivers, working in the garden, or walking her beagle around the neighborhood while chuckling to an audiobook on her headphones. More information about A. K. can be found at aksnyderbooks.com.

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