{ "item_title" : "The Awakening", "item_author" : [" Eleanor Everly Rosewood "], "item_description" : "Most people die without ever meeting themselves.They live a script. They wear a mask.They become what their parents wanted, what their culture rewarded, what their partners expected, what their workplace approved of. They learn what to say, what to hide, what to want, and who they are supposed to be.Then they call it a life. But sometimes the mask begins to crack.A question appears. Who am I?For most people, the question can be pushed away. For some trans people, it cannot.At some point, the gap between the person they were expected to be and the person they knew themselves to be becomes too large to ignore. What once looked like a normal life can begin to feel like a life built around someone else's answer.And then the real work begins.Not the easy work. Not the inspirational version.The real work.Questioning the name. Questioning the role. Questioning the expectations. Questioning the relationships. Questioning the beliefs. Questioning the identity that once seemed unquestionable. And sometimes questioning the body itself.This is not a story about becoming someone new. It is a story about finding out what was yours all along. That process can bring freedom. It can also bring fear. Grief. Loneliness. Shame. Confusion. Loss.A person can know that a choice is necessary and still be terrified of making it. They can leave a life that was hurting them and still mourn it. They can stop hiding and still wonder who they are.That is the part people rarely talk about.Awakening does not give you every answer. It gives you the courage to stop living inside an answer that is not yours.For trans people, this struggle can become impossible to ignore. And that is what makes the trans experience psychologically important far beyond gender.The trans person is not more evolved than everyone else.They are not wiser by birth. They are not better. They are not here to teach the rest of humanity how to live. But their experience can force a question that many people spend their entire lives avoiding: How much of the person you call yourself was actually chosen by you?That is where this book begins.The Awakening is not a guide to transition.It is not an argument about politics. It is not a demand that you change your gender, your relationships, your career, your family, or your life. It is an invitation to look at yourself without the usual excuses.To examine the masks. To face the shame. To question the roles. To understand the false self. To discover what remains when you stop performing for an audience. And if you are trans, this book asks something different of you.It does not ask you to prove who you are. It does not ask you to justify your existence. It does not ask you to become anyone else's symbol.It asks you to look honestly at the person you have fought to become and ask: What is mine? What did I choose?What did I inherit? What did I learn to hide?What did I become to survive? What am I still carrying because someone else taught me to carry it?And perhaps the hardest question of all: Who am I when I no longer need to perform?The trans person is not your teacher.They are your mirror.Look closely.You may see gender. You may see identity. You may see a struggle that has nothing to do with your own life.Or you may see something much more uncomfortable. You may see yourself.Because everyone wears a mask.Everyone learns roles. Everyone absorbs expectations. Everyone has parts of themselves they protect from other people's judgment.The difference is that some people are eventually forced to confront those questions.Others get through life without ever having to.Until the question finds them. And when it does, there is nowhere left to hide.What are you hiding from?", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/190/9798191908182_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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