The Village I Had to Build: A Mother's Story of Healing Without Support, (Paperback)

<p>They say it takes a village to raise a child.</p><p>But what happens when the village never comes?</p><p>When Chelsey Wyatt became a mother at nineteen, she believed that support would be there when she needed it most. Instead, she found herself navigating postpartum depression, single motherhood, trauma, miscarriage, addiction, and heartbreak while carrying the weight of motherhood largely on her own.</p><p>In <i>The Village I Had to Build</i>, Chelsey shares her deeply personal story of raising children through life's hardest seasons while struggling to hold herself together. From the loneliness of postpartum depression and the pain of pregnancy loss, to hitting rock bottom and rebuilding after alcoholism, she offers an honest look at the realities many mothers quietly face behind closed doors.</p><p>But this is not a story about staying broken.</p><p>It is a story about healing.</p><p>About learning that motherhood isn't perfection-it's showing up, again and again, even when your heart is heavy.</p><p>It's about discovering that family isn't always defined by blood, loving children you didn't give birth to, and finding friendship in the women who stay when life gets hard.</p><p>Most of all, it's about realizing that sometimes the village you've been searching for isn't something you find.</p><p>It's something you build.</p><p>Raw, heartfelt, and deeply relatable, <i>The Village I Had to Build</i> is for every mother who has ever felt overwhelmed, unseen, alone, or like she was carrying the world on her shoulders.</p><p>If you've ever wondered whether you're enough, this book is a reminder that you are stronger than you know-and that even in your hardest seasons, you are never truly alone.</p>

• The Village I Had to Build: A Mother's Story of Healing Without Support, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798180880642
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-12
• Page Count: 56