New Memoir Pieces of Me Traces One Woman’s Journey Through Survival, Collapse, and the Long Road Back to Herself

Baltomore, MD – October 03, 2026 – Author Nakia M. Liles has released Pieces of Me, a memoir that follows her through decades of trauma, spiritual searching, motherhood, and personal reinvention, and arrives at a deceptively simple idea: wholeness isn’t something we achieve by leaving our past selves behind — it’s what becomes possible when we finally stop abandoning them.

Structured in six movements, Pieces of Me moves chronologically through the different identities Liles built in order to endure — the inner child who retreated into imagination when the world felt unsafe, the hyper-independent teenager who stopped waiting to be rescued, the wounded healer who poured herself into others, the seeker who spent years reaching for God only to watch that certainty collapse, and the mother who found herself reparenting her own inner child while raising her son. Each chapter closes with a letter Liles writes to that version of herself — part apology, part gratitude, part permission to finally rest.

The book does not shy away from the darker chapters of Liles’s life, including abuse, chronic illness, the aftermath of being shot, and periods of suicidal despair. But it resists turning that pain into spectacle or into a tidy redemption arc. Instead, Pieces of Me insists on a harder, more honest claim: that survival doesn’t have to be justified by what it eventually produces, and that a person can grieve what happened to them while still honoring who they became.

“I didn’t write this book because I finally have all the answers,” Liles said. “I wrote it because I spent so much of my life believing I had to become someone else — someone healed enough, spiritual enough, strong enough — before I was allowed to belong to my own life. This book is what I wish someone had told me: that every piece of you that helped you survive deserves a seat at the table, not a door out.”

Readers familiar with trauma memoirs will recognize the terrain, but Pieces of Me distinguishes itself through its architecture: rather than telling a single linear story, Liles gives each surviving “piece” of herself its own chapter, its own voice, and its own reckoning, building toward a final movement in which those pieces are no longer at war but finally sitting together. The result is a book as much about integration as it is about survival — one that will resonate with readers navigating their own healing, faith transitions, motherhood, or the particular exhaustion of having carried too much for too long.

Pieces of Me is available now in [paperback/ebook/hardcover.

About the Author

Nakia M. Liles is a healer, wife, mother, and writer whose work sits at the intersection of storytelling, spirituality, and self-inquiry. Pieces of Me is her debut book and the foundation of Welcome Home, her growing body of work devoted to helping others reclaim the parts of themselves they were taught to hide. She lives with her family and continues to write about remembrance, integration, and what it means to come home to oneself.

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