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For most of her life, she was running—toward safety, toward belonging, toward a version of herself she could finally inhabit.The Long Way Back to Myself is a lyrical, unflinching memoir of love, loss, migration, motherhood, and becoming. From a childhood shaped by silence and survival in Cuba, to adolescence marked by displacement, premature adulthood, and misunderstood love, Heidi Pino traces the invisible threads that bind trauma, attachment, and identity.This is not a story of clean breaks or easy healing. It is a story of patterns inherited and interrupted—of how grief, emotional abuse, and early wounds quietly shape the choices we make, the relationships we stay in, and the versions of ourselves we learn to abandon. Through marriage, motherhood, pregnancy loss, and the slow reckoning that follows leaving what no longer fits, Heidi writes with honesty, restraint, and compassion—for herself and for those who lived these moments alongside her.At its heart, this memoir is about learning the difference between endurance and selfhood. About choosing truth over survival. About becoming a mother while learning, at last, how to mother oneself.Written for readers who have lived between worlds, stayed too long, loved fiercely, or rebuilt quietly, The Long Way Back to Myself is a testament to resilience—not the romantic kind, but the kind forged in reflection, grief, and deliberate choice.This is not a story about perfection.It is a story about return. Read more
