I Chose Me

By: Walker, Felicha

She spent years being everything to everyone - until the day she chose herself.

Felicha Walker grew up on a block where everybody knew your name and the women called you in when the streetlights came on. Raised by a strong black woman who taught her that strength meant endurance without complaint, she learned early how to shrink herself into something palatable - the good girl, the dependable one, the woman who never said no. She wore the crown of everyone else's expectations until it nearly crushed her.

I Chose Me is the raw, unflinching memoir of a woman who lost herself in the performance of perfection - and fought her way back.

From the silence she inherited from her mother's kitchen to the relationships where love felt like survival, from panic attacks in conference rooms to the bathroom floor at midnight, Felicha traces the fractures that broke her open and the healing that put her back together - not as the woman the world wanted, but as the woman she actually was.

This is a story about unlearning the mythology of the Strong Black Woman. About grief that isn't just for the dead. About boundaries that aren't walls, they're love letters about the terrifying, beautiful, sacred act of choosing yourself when the world has taught you that your needs come last.

Through 20 chapters of vivid storytelling, Felicha takes you from:

- The childhood roots that anchored and trapped her
- The relationships where she disappeared in plain sight
- Rock bottom - and the basement beneath it
- The whisper that called her back to herself
- The pivotal moment she declared: I chose me
- Walking in purpose and finally reaping the harvest of her own healing

Part confession, part love letter, part battle cry - I Chose Me is for every woman who has smiled when she wanted to scream, said yes when her whole body was begging her to say no, and held it together when falling apart was the most honest thing she could do.

Now it's your turn. Choose you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZNWXG2J
• ISBN13: 9798258561152
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"