Kissing Asphalt

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Resilience isn't inherited. It's a hard-fought skill forged by our ability to pick up the broken pieces of our past and remake them into something new.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Meet four-year-old Delicia a poor but carefree child who is about to have her world shattered. Along with her seven-year-old brother Nile she is kidnapped from her Los Angeles home by her estranged father and taken to Iraq a foreign world she has never known. This is just the beginning of a string of traumas hardships and assaults Delicia will endure throughout her tumultuous childhood.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now an adult living back in California Delicia Niami bravely recounts how she survived the unimaginable in her debut memoir. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kissing Asphalt</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the first in her memoir trilogy ResilientAF grapples with the power of resilience acceptance and self-love. She revisits her terrifying past with vulnerability compassion and the honesty of a true survivor. Hold hands with Delicia as she faces her childhood scars and learns how to confront her fears accept her true value and identity and embrace her unique gifts. It's a multi-decade roller coaster ride that is the beginning of her liberation propelling her to live an inspired life and embrace her full human potential-a human potential she knows lives inside everyone no matter what life has thrown at us.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For anyone who has struggled with childhood trauma Delicia's unflinching journey through darkness and back to light will resonate. She has decided to share her story publicly in hopes that it will serve as a guide to the many who have suffered in silence and continue to struggle against the daunting weight imposed by childhood trauma. </span></p>