A Memoir
Walking Away Free
A Memoir of Courage, Healing, and Reclaiming My Life
Everyone always told me I was the strong one. No one saw that I was drowning.
A Memoir
A Memoir of Courage, Healing, and Reclaiming My Life
Everyone always told me I was the strong one. No one saw that I was drowning.
You were never looking for the one. The one was always you.
Inside the book
I learned to survive early. I lost my father at eleven, buried my first love far too young, and raised my daughters with no one beside me. I married, I divorced, I built a business out of nothing. By the time a charming stranger walked into my life, I was sure I had already lived through the worst of it.
For six months he was everything I thought I wanted — he liked everything I liked, finished my sentences, called me his twin. Then the mask came off and the real man stepped out, and he set out to take it all: my money, my children, my home, my name, my mind. Slowly. Quietly. One inch at a time, until I could barely see it happening.
No one rescued me. I saved myself the only way I knew how — I put on my sneakers and I walked. Morning after morning, mile after mile, until the walking became prayer, the prayer became a plan, and the plan became my way out.
If you are drowning while the world keeps calling you strong, I wrote this for you. There is a whole life on the other side of fear, and I walk in it every single day.
From the Prologue
I started walking because it was the one place he couldn't follow me.
Inside the house, everything was watched — my phone, my face, where I went, who I spoke to, how long I was gone. But exercise he understood. A woman wanting to walk off some weight and get some air, that he allowed. So I would put on my sneakers and go, and for the first time in a long while, nobody knew exactly where I was.
That is where I did my thinking. That is where I planned. Every move I ever made to get my life back, I worked out somewhere along those miles, talking to myself and to God and to nobody at all. I called it walking away free.
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About Malikah
Malikah Murphy is a writer, entrepreneur, and advocate. Born and raised in the Bronx, she built a career spanning nearly two decades in sales and marketing, rising to become one of the top earners in her field and mentoring countless others into leadership along the way. She is the founder of The F.L.O.W. Network Group and MKM Advisory Group.
She is the proud mother of four, and most mornings still begin the way they begin in these pages — with a long walk by the river, and the sun coming up over the water. Walking Away Free is her first book.
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