Q1: How did you decide on the book’s structure?
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I wanted 7 Cups of Coffee to feel like healing — not just read like a book.
Life doesn’t unfold in perfect chapters; it unfolds in moments. So I wrote it that way. Each story is followed by a poetic reflection — a pause, a sacred inhale. The rhythm mirrors the way we process pain and transformation: one sip, one truth, one awakening at a time.
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Q2: What inspired the title 7 Cups of Coffee?
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My entire life collapsed around me in 2019. A series of divine events led me to strangers who shared their life stories with me. Every cup in this book represents a conversation — a moment that became a mirror for my own healing. By the end of that year, I had experienced a complete transformation. Healing happened through connection — the kind that reminds you you’re never truly alone at the table. ☕
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Q3: What do you hope readers feel after finishing the book?
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Peace. Permission. Presence.
I hope they close the last page and take a deep breath — not because the story is over, but because they realize theirs isn’t. This book isn’t meant to teach healing. It’s meant to walk beside you while you do it.
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Q4: Why did you choose to self-publish?
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Because I didn’t want to wait for permission to tell the truth.
Every word, every design choice, every heartbeat of this project came from a place of faith and trust that it would find who it was meant to. Self-publishing let me keep the book pure — unfiltered, unpolished in the ways that matter, and fully mine.
And now… it belongs to the world. 🌎
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Q5: How did you come up with the idea for the book?
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The idea came from real conversations — real people who crossed my path at exactly the right time. I didn’t set out to write a book. I set out to survive a season that broke me open. But every story I heard became a reflection, a reminder that we heal through one another.
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Q6: Who is this book really for?
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It’s for anyone who’s gone through something that changed them — a loss, a heartbreak, a season of starting over. 7 Cups of Coffee is for the ones trying to make sense of their story, who want to believe there’s still purpose in what they’ve walked through.
I wrote this book to sit with you — until you can see yourself again.
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Q7: Why did you choose a literary-poetic style of writing?
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Because healing isn’t linear — it’s lyrical.
I didn’t want the language to just tell the story; I wanted it to carry the emotion. The poetic rhythm creates space for the reader to breathe, to feel, and to remember that truth can live in beauty.
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Q8: What was the hardest part about writing the book?
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Reliving it. Writing this book meant walking back through moments I thought I’d already healed from — realizing that healing isn’t a one-time event but a continual unfolding.
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Q9: What did you learn from your journey — and do readers take away the same lesson?
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I learned that surrender isn’t weakness — it’s sacred strength.
It’s the moment you stop fighting the story and start trusting its purpose. My hope is that readers feel that too — that they stop asking “why did this happen to me?” and start seeing what it’s trying to awaken in them.
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Q10: Why does the book feel so different from others in its genre?
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Because it blurs the line between narrative and soul work. It isn’t just stories — it’s an experience. It invites you to reflect, to feel, and to find yourself within the pages.
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Q11: Why did it take so long to complete the book?
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It took six years to write this book. I wrote most of the stories in the first year, but afterward I experienced what I call a spiritual void. I was processing what had happened and discovering who I was after the journey.
There was resistance — because I had lived it, returning to the pain was hard. I worked with editors early on, but the first two didn’t understand the direction. They said it felt like a collection of stories and that there wasn’t enough of me in it. But I never set out to make it an autobiography — it was always a journey, and the stories arrived when I was ready for the lessons within them.
I always knew the book had twenty-one chapters, but chapter twenty-one remained incomplete until I had done the soul work to truly understand it. When I finished that lesson, I finally saw how everything wove together — and the book poured out of me.
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Q12: When you say chapter twenty-one remained incomplete until you had done the soul work to truly understand it — what did you still need to learn?
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Shadow integration.
By that point, I knew who I was — but I was still learning to accept who I had been.
I had spent so long healing forward that I hadn’t fully turned around to embrace the parts of me I had left behind. Chapter twenty-one became the final mirror — the one that asked me to stop running from my past and finally love the version of myself who survived it.
That chapter was full-circle healing. It was where I stopped trying to become someone new and instead honored all the versions that had carried me here. It was the moment I no longer needed to fix who I was — only to forgive her.
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Q13: How did pre-readers react?
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Most of them cried. Then they messaged me, saying, “I’ve never seen myself written this way before.”
Their reactions weren’t just emotional — they were spiritual. They didn’t just read the book; they felt it.
They said it was like having someone sit beside them through a season of their own life. That was the moment I knew I had done what I was meant to — I hadn’t written to impress anyone. I had written to connect.
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Q14: When you say it’s a mirror of yourself, what does that really mean?
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Every person I met reflected something back to me — a truth I had forgotten, a wound I hadn’t healed, or a love I hadn’t yet learned to receive.
Writing this book was like standing in front of twenty-one mirrors. Each one showed me a version of myself I had outgrown or one I needed to remember.
When I say the book is a mirror, I don’t just mean it reflects who I was — it shows who I became because of it. And if you look closely, I believe you’ll see pieces of yourself in those reflections too. ☕✨
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Q15: What piece in your book are you most proud of?
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Roses Never Fade is my favorite piece in the book. It’s raw, honest, and a reflection of everything this journey taught me — that no matter where you are or how far you’ve fallen, you will bloom again.
Healing doesn’t happen all at once. It happens season by season, layer by layer. And every time you rise, you come back stronger and more rooted than before. 🌹✨
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