My friend Erin wrote this incredible book and I wanted to share it with you.
It wasn’t an easy thing for her to do, but helping others has always driven her so she brushed off her fears and went to work.
We all become someone to survive.
The achiever.
The caretaker. The perfectionist. The invisible one.
Erin became Samantha. Capable. Accomplished. Resilient. Successful, even. That’s who the world saw. What it didn’t see was a little girl carrying secrets, a woman who learned to become whatever the moment required, and a quiet certainty that who she really was would never be enough.
For a long time, Samantha worked. She protected Erin. She helped her survive, achieve, adapt, and build a life that looked remarkably good from the outside.
Until survival became its own kind of prison.
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Untangling Samantha is a raw, deeply personal, and unexpectedly funny memoir about identity, trauma, survival, and the messy journey back to yourself — about the roles we inhabit, the stories we tell, and what happens when the person we became to survive starts keeping us from actually living.
