Anchored in Strength: A Memoir of Survival, Faith, and the Kintsugi Path

Anchored in Strength is a memoir of survival, faith, and transformation—told through the quiet accumulation of moments rather than dramatic declaration.Born in Puerto Rico and raised between worlds, Hadassa Muñoz Rivera traces a life shaped by migration, silence, religious rigidity, and the invisible labor of adaptation. From childhood displacement to the private costs of control and endurance, this memoir explores what happens when resilience becomes a burden rather than a refuge.Structured in three parts—The Island Years, The Passage Between Worlds, and The Kintsugi Path—the book follows a journey from early survival strategies, through adolescence and adulthood marked by trauma, toward a reckoning that allows for repair rather than perfection.Anchored in the Japanese philosophy of kintsugi, where broken pottery is mended with gold, this memoir does not romanticize suffering. It names what fractured, what endured, and what finally required truth in order to heal.This book is for readers drawn to:• Literary memoir• Trauma-informed storytelling• Faith examined with honesty• Resilience without sentimentality• The quiet courage of self-reclamation Read more