{"product_id":"the-wrong-therapist-shani-greene-dowdell-9798244542523","title":"The Wrong Therapist: Black, Not Broken","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe survived everything she was taught not to name.\u003cbr\u003eNow she must decide what not to pass down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt sixty-five, Jackie Anderson enters therapy for the first time-not because she is broken, but because silence has finally stopped working.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised in Newark in a family where endurance passed for love and quiet meant survival, Jackie learned early how to hold everything together. She became the dependable one. The strong one. The woman who managed chaos without ever letting it show. But when generational wounds begin resurfacing through her children and her granddaughter, Jackie is forced to confront a harder truth: survival alone is not healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in Jackie's own voice through a series of intimate therapy sessions, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wrong Therapist: Black, Not Broken\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a layered, emotionally precise novel that explores motherhood, marriage, addiction, grief, faith, and the inherited cost of unspoken pain. As Jackie revisits the moments that shaped her family, she begins to see how coping strategies meant to protect quietly shaped harm-and how silence became the most trusted, and most damaging, teacher of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story about blame.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a story about choice.\u003cbr\u003eAbout repair without erasure.\u003cbr\u003eAbout learning how to soften without disappearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith lyrical restraint and unflinching honesty, Kashinda T. Marche examines what it means to interrupt cycles in real time-and to choose truth over endurance. \u003ci\u003eThe Wrong Therapist: Black, Not Broken\u003c\/i\u003e is trauma-informed literary fiction that speaks to anyone who has ever been praised for strength while quietly paying the cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause being built differently doesn't mean being broken.\u003cbr\u003eAnd healing doesn't require you to disappear to deserve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shani Greene-Dowdell,Kashinda T. Marche\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798244542523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Shani Greene-Dowdell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874564550911,"sku":"9798244542523","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wrong-therapist-shani-greene-dowdell-9798244542523","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}