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Home Is Within You

A Memoir of Recovery and Redemption

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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.

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      April 1, 2023
      On the surface, Latinx and Native American Davis seems to have life figured out. She's intelligent, beautiful, and an attorney like her father with a strong desire to help others. But beneath the surface, she is hiding years of trauma and addiction. Beginning with sexual abuse as a child in a doctor's office, Davis was bullied at school, then endured unhealthy relationships, physical abuse, drug and alcohol addictions, and a horrendous car accident. An elected official herself, she marries the state attorney general of California and has three sons. While devoted to her children, Davis is suffering from PTSD. She battles her addictions and is stalked by a man who eventually beats her, all in the public eye. This is not an easy book to read. Davis is brutally honest as she recalls her traumas, rehab programs, and a number of setbacks. Throughout, she shares excerpts from her journals and poignant letters to her sons. With therapy, meetings, yoga, meditation, and determination, Davis eventually arrives at her "home within." A demanding, illuminating, and powerful memoir of pain and healing.

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