Learning to Arrive at Myself: Letters to My Younger Self on Becoming, Belonging, and Being - Softcover

Chidoka, Chidinma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9786700740 ISBN 13: 9789786700748

Publisher: Athena Press Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

Learning to Arrive at Myself: Letters to My Younger Self on Becoming, Belonging, and Being

At forty, Chidinma Chidoka wrote a series of letters to her younger self—honest, searching, and full of what she wished she had known. Then life happened, and she tucked them away.

Ten years later, she found them again.

Learning to Arrive at Myself is a memoir in letters — six chapters, six themes across a woman's life, one honest reckoning with everything it has taken to become herself. Moving through the themes of roots, mindset, integrity, friendship, patience, and contentment, Chidinma writes from fifty to forty with the clarity that only distance and difficulty can produce.

This is not a book about having arrived. It is a book about what happens when you stop pretending you have and start paying attention to the life you are already living.

For women who have spent years showing up for everyone else and are only beginning to ask what it means to show up for themselves. For anyone navigating the space between who they were raised to be and who they are becoming. For readers who want not answers but honest company on the journey.

Learning to Arrive at Myself is Chidinma Chidoka's first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Athena Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9786700740
• ISBN 13: 9789786700748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108