Choosing Me: A Memoir of Reflection, Growth, & Becoming

By Toritseju Solomon

For years, Toritseju Solomon carried responsibility, expectations, love, disappointment, loss, and the quiet weight of becoming who he believed he needed to be.

But beneath the relationships, responsibilities, achievements, and difficult chapters was another journey unfolding - the journey back to himself.

Choosing Me is a deeply personal memoir of reflection, growth, fatherhood, identity, attachment, forgiveness, healing, and self-discovery.

Through childhood experiences, relationships, marriage, fatherhood, loss, emotional exhaustion, solitude, and the search for inner peace, Solomon reflects on the patterns that shaped him and the experiences that ultimately forced him to see himself more honestly.

This is not a story of a perfect life.

It is the story of a human one.

Along the way, Solomon explores what happens when we spend years meeting expectations, carrying responsibilities, seeking connection, and trying to become what others - and sometimes life itself - seem to require of us.

What happens when we finally become quiet enough to ask:

Who am I beneath everything I have been carrying?

And what does it mean to choose yourself without abandoning the people you love?

Part memoir and part reflection on the human experience, Choosing Me invites readers to examine their own lives with greater honesty, self-awareness, compassion, and courage.

Because choosing yourself is not always selfishness.

Sometimes it is simply the decision to stop abandoning yourself.

To heal.

To reflect.

To grow.

To love honestly.

To seek peace.

And to continue becoming.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9786887565
• ISBN13: 9789786887562
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Toritseju Solomon Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"