Learning to Love

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Jennifer Ashford has survived the worst the world could throw at her. The scars on her body are healing the ghosts of her past growing quieter. She has a home now a partner who loves her and a life she never dared to imagine. But healing isn't a straight line it's a labyrinth of old fears new dreams and the fragile art of learning to be safe when danger no longer defines you.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>With Jerry by her side Jennifer begins to rebuild herself piece by piece through therapy sessions medical consultations and the daily rituals of reclaiming her body and her identity. She faces a world that too often forgets her kind exists doctors who question strangers who stare and systems that make her prove her womanhood again and again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>As her journey toward surgical and legal affirmation unfolds Jennifer discovers that survival was only the beginning. Healing means confronting what she's lost and daring to believe she deserves what's left love friendship beauty and a future that's wholly her own.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The Shape of Healing</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> is a story of courage and tenderness of the slow alchemy that turns pain into power. It is about what happens after the rescue when the real work of living and loving begins.</span></p>