The Pink Star ( Becoming in Pieces)

<p>The Pink Star (Becoming in Pieces) is not just a book.</p><p>It is a quiet room. A soft sigh. A warm mirror.</p><p>It was written for the ones who smile with a thousand cracks beneath.</p><p>The ones who grew up too fast. Who've loved too deeply and lost silently.</p><p>The ones who hold everyone else together but find it hard to hold themselves.</p><p>If you've ever wondered where your softness went</p><p>if you've ever questioned your enough-ness</p><p>if you've ever longed to be seen - this book is for you.</p><p>Told in a poetic deeply emotional style The Pink Star opens its heart like a series of handwritten letters and reflections. These are the pieces of Patricia Kpogoh - a woman raised by a single mother shaped by abandonment strengthened by sibling bonds and cracked open by failed relationships. Her story is both unique and familiar - a mirror for many.</p><p>She doesn't just write from memory.</p><p>She writes from every woman who's ever felt too much stayed too long or never felt like enough.</p><p>As a midwife and school nurse Patricia has cared for the body.</p><p>But in this book she turns inward to care for the soul - not with prescriptions but with poems and pauses with affirmations and truths that sting before they soothe.</p><p>She knows what it means to nurture others while trying to find home within yourself. She's walked with mothers students and strangers - but The Pink Star is the journey she took with herself.</p><p>In every piece I broke I found a piece of light. Becoming hurt. Becoming healing. Becoming her.</p><p> </p><p>Written with raw tenderness and gentle honesty The Pink Star (Becoming in Pieces) becomes a sanctuary - especially for the woman who was told to be strong before she was ever allowed to feel.</p><p>It holds space for the woman who learned to shrink to be loved.</p><p>The one who became quiet even when her heart had volumes to speak.</p><p>It speaks deeply to the African woman's experience yet its heartbeat is universal - resonating with anyone who longs to be held heard and whole.</p><p>This is for the daughters who are tired of saving everyone but themselves.</p><p>This is for the ones who want to stop performing and start becoming.</p><p>This is for the ones who want to be held - even if it's by words.</p><p>Within each chapter you'll find not just poetic storytelling but personalized quotes soul-whispers and guided reflections. Each section closes with questions that feel like mirrors - and affirmations that feel like balm.</p><p>This isn't about becoming someone new.</p><p>It's about remembering who you were before the world made you forget.</p><p>It's not a book you just read.</p><p>It's a book you rest in.</p><p>It's a book you return to - on hard days quiet nights and the moments you need to feel seen.</p><p>From one becoming heart to another - Patricia wrote this for you.</p><p> The Pink Star will not fix you. It will meet you. It will hold you. It will remind you that you were never broken - just becoming.</p><p>- Patricia Kpogoh</p><p> </p>