Boundless
I was at risk to lose my faith, my personality, my sanity — essentially my entire self.
When Brittany James became a mother at twenty-five, she quit her job just like she was supposed to — just like her mother tried to do for over twenty years while caring for eight kids. This was Brittany’s big chance to achieve her lifelong goal of being a mother who could focus solely on her child.
But being a stay-at-home mom wasn’t the blissful future she had imagined.
When she brought her newborn girl home, she descended into a hazy, directionless life that scared her. She questioned her deepest beliefs about her God-given role of motherhood and the religion she was raised in as she discovered the realities her own mother faced raising her.
This is an account of the struggles of working mothers. It is a story of the strength of faith and intuition and, ultimately, finding your own path. Brittany James crafts a journey of self-discovery that takes the reader to the core of what it means to be a mother and to believe in God.
I started writing this in 2020, the year after I had my first baby. At first it was just a story about my childhood. I knew there was a deeper story there, but I couldn’t find it. That was because I hadn’t yet resolved it. As I grew into myself as a mother and also learned what I really needed, I started to understand my past. I found out what kept drawing me back in time. It was moments where my own mother was dealing with the same things I had been going through. It wasn’t until I came to a moment where I had to choose my faith in God that I truly understood what this journey of self-discovery had been about and I was able to write my memoir. Of course I have had the help of numerous friends, editors, memoir mentors, courses and free webinars and, without fail, my dear husband. I couldn’t have written it without them.