It's Your Story to Tell

<p>Our lives don't unfold like a novel-they are episodic and don't always have a clean narrative. Our lives are a collection of essays.</p><p><br></p><p>When you identify yourself where do you begin? Which labels do you use where did they come from? Do you define yourself or are you living a narrative someone else created for you? Why do we need labels in the first place? Author Maryann Lombardi shares her experiences and insights answering these questions and more. In <em>It's Your Story to Tell: Essays on Identity from a Messy Life Well Lived</em> readers can witness how Lombardi learn to tells her story so they can explore how to tell their own.</p><p><br></p><p>Lombardi's essays cover</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Gender identity and what it means to be a women</li><li>The power of the mother child bond</li><li>How family history drives family dynamics</li><li>The discombobulation marriage divorce and dating again has on your identity</li><li>The hijinks of many wild trips across the world</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>It's Your Story to Tell: Essays on Identity from a Messy Life Well Lived</em> by Maryann Lombardi is a guide for readers who are ready to rethink the narratives they tell themselves who owns their stories and how to take them back.</p><hr><p><br></p>