Out of the Cocoon: The Journey to Becoming by Rosemary Esehagu
Out of the Cocoon: The Journey to Becoming is a hybrid prose and poetry memoir that takes an intimate look at the author’s experience with childhood sexual abuse in her native country, emotional abuse as an immigrant, and racism and sexism as a black woman. The author, using her personal experience and her education (she has a psychology degree and a medical degree), gives insights about how to move from wounded to healed, from trauma to growth.
How would you live your life if you understood that every scar, trauma, or suffering can make you stronger and greater?
Rosemary Esehagu, who has studied psychology and medicine, has seen the damaging effects of having people's abuse or trauma speak for them. In her memoir, Out of the Cocoon: The Journey to Becoming, she shares her story of posttraumatic growth and offers a radical perspective on abuse. Despite encountering abuse as a child and racism and trauma when she immigrated to the US as a teenager, she has found her place and is living her purpose. She uses prose and poetry to express that we can overpower and repurpose others' harmful actions.
There is a better way of living after trauma...
Out of the Cocoon: The Journey to Becoming is available for sale on Amazon (published by Manhattan Book Group, February 15, 2025).
About the Author:
Rosemary Esehagu was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. She immigrated to Bronx, New York City, at age sixteen. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at the prestigious Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with a major in psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. She then went on to earn her Doctor of Medicine degree.
While she has always valued storytelling, she used to think practicing medicine was the best way to help people. As she has come into herself, embracing her past and all the facets of her, she is passionate about rekindling her love of storytelling, of inspiring the mind, because the mind is the source of who we are and how we are. Writing allows her to reach the mind, to heal the heart, and to put a soothing balm on the soul.
Her topics of interests are intersections of identity, gender, society, trauma, and healing. She is a devout Christian, a feminist, an intersex advocate, a mental health advocate, a survivor, and an amateur dancer, among other things.
To learn more, visit RosemaryEsehagu.com
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