Becoming Whole in Pieces
"A FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS, IDENTITY, AND RISING WHOLE, EVEN WHEN IN PIECES."
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As I Am This is not a book about becoming someone else. It is not about fixing what was never broken, or polishing your soul until it shines just right. This is not a quest for perfection. This is a homecoming. A return to the self you’ve always been— beneath the weight, beneath the noise, beneath the masks you were told you had to wear. This is a book about raw acceptance. The kind that does not flinch at your shadows, the kind that looks you in the eye and says: Your scars are not shameful. Your trauma is not your fault. Your struggle is not your identity, but neither is it a secret. You are not required to become someone new to be worthy. You are allowed to be exactly who you are, and still be enough. This is not an invitation to rewrite yourself, but to sit beside every version of you— even the bruised ones, the broken ones— and say: You are still mine. You are still worthy of love. You are still home. The healing does not live in perfection— it lives in presence. It lives in the soft defiance of saying: This is me. All of me. And I do not need to be anything else to belong.
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You’ve met the lost soul. Now meet the one who stayed. In this honest and lyrical follow-up to The Words of the Lost Soul, Rudo Savage offers a quiet revolution — not through dramatic change, but through radical acceptance. This is not a book about fixing yourself. It’s a book about being with yourself. Part poetry, part constructive mindfulness exercises, part permission slip — these pages hold space for what it means to live with a mental illness and still choose softness, presence, and self-compassion. This is the journey of learning to stay. To speak to yourself like someone worth saving. To stop running from your mind and start living with it — gently. Through reflective prompts and poetic truths, this book invites you back into your body, back into your breath, and back into a version of life where you don’t have to earn your peace — only return to it. You are not too much. You are not behind. You are already becoming whole in beautiful pieces.
About the Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rudo Savage is a mental health advocate, writer and poetic truth-teller whose work explores the raw edges of healing, identity and emotional rebirth. Having walked through the shadows of trauma, emotional dysregulation and self-doubt, she now writes through a place of reclamation - helping others remember their worth, voice and inner fi re. Her debut work, The Words of the Lost Soul, was a deeply personal refl ection of surviving mental illness and fi nding light in fragments. Her writing directly speaks to those who have ever felt silenced, invisible or “too much”, off ering not just understanding but permission to rise. She lives in the UK with her 3 children, is also a registered adult nurse, studies counselling and psychology and loves yoga.