My Mother's Mirror: A Generational Journey of Resilience and Self-Discovery - Paperback

by Sabrina Soffer (Author)

Who am I? What's my purpose? How much longer can I endure this pain? Everyone encounters these moments-- waves of identity crisis crashing that swallow confidence, dignity, and dreams. If all endure such earth-shattering moments, how does one emerge from the rubble? How does one rouse themself from darkness to illuminate roads ahead?

My Mother's Mirror is a transformational journey of a woman relentlessly searching for her purpose, passions, and principles as she experiences inner-conflicts and identity crisis in a contentious relationship. At twenty-three, she faces herself crying hopelessly in the mirror, entangled in a repressive marriage packaged with a restrictive community and culture. This moment, rather than breaking her, emerges in a lifelong commitment to being honest with herself and others in search of purpose, fulfillment, and joy. She pursues each obstacle as an opportunity to know herself by taking responsibility and communicating assertively. Each extreme emotion serves an indicator of beliefs and paradigms to accept, reject, and change toward self-repair and inner peace.

This story is a collection of tumultuous events with themes of identity crisis, relationships, motherhood, parenting, and adolescence. A memoir-style book that shifts from a daughter's perspective to her mother's tells a generational story of acquiring principles to cultivate oneself with grit, integrity, and tenacity to find personal power and fulfillment through introspection, cross-cultural blending, and transforming conflictive paradigms.

The journey begins with Sabrina's teenage experiences in high school and beyond, then ties back to her mother's roots. Such a story originates in a mountain-top village in the Russian Caucasus, where tribal traditions indiscriminately confine women to patriarchal standards. The journey then continues to Israel, a cultural melting pot with intense racial divide, is infused with communal values that strive toward the collective good. Immigrating to America gives a taste of different worlds on both coasts, from Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox quarter to the bustling, male-dominated Wall Street sphere, and finally, to the placid paradise of San Diego, California.

As social changes have turned women's lives upside down, many struggle to balance their personal needs with societal demands. This generational journey offers readers insight about tools for success in their adolescence, single lives, relationships, marriage, parenting, and more as they shift from one role to the next. The coming of age stories and voyage of transformation in this book demonstrate how to embrace painful moments as opportunities to cultivate inner-strength.

This book is dedicated to women of all ages around the world who seek meaningful, liberated, and confident lives.