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Surviving what shaped you
An honest look at teenage motherhood, complicated relationships, and the quiet ways survival mode becomes a lifestyle.
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A Memoir by Connie Walton
Built From the Sh*t
That Broke Me
A Memoir of Survival, Healing and Becoming
For every woman who has ever felt trapped inside the life she created — a raw, honest story about losing yourself, questioning everything, and rebuilding from the pieces.
Kindle Edition · Paperback · 264 pages · English
Why this book exists
She built the life she was supposed to want.
And it nearly broke her.
Connie Walton spent years building a life that looked right from the outside while slowly losing herself inside it. She became a teenage mother, survived complicated relationships, built a nursing career, raised a son with autism, and created the marriage and family life she thought she was supposed to want.
Beneath the surface she was exhausted, disconnected, and living in survival mode. This book is the raw, funny, intimate and unapologetically honest account of what it took to stop performing — and start becoming.
This Book Is For You If
You've felt trapped inside the life you created
You are not alone. If any of these feel familiar, this book was written for you.
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You've spent years pouring into everyone else and quietly lost the person you used to be.
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You've held a marriage, motherhood, or a career together while burning out on the inside.
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You've raised a child through complexity — or grown up in one — and never quite let yourself feel it.
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You've stayed in relationships that were slowly costing you the very self you were trying to protect.
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You suspect there is a truer, freer version of you waiting on the other side of the story you've been telling yourself.
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You want a memoir that is honest about burnout, sexuality, spirituality and divorce — without pretending healing is neat.
What You Will Discover
A memoir that meets you in the mess — and walks with you through it.
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Burnout beneath the smile
What it really takes to hold a family, a career, and a version of yourself together — and the cost when no one is holding you.
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Motherhood without the filter
Raising a son with autism, learning to advocate, and finding the humour and grief inside the ordinary days.
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Marriage, divorce and honesty
What happens when the life you built no longer fits — and how choosing yourself is not the same as giving up.
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Sexuality and spirituality, uncensored
The parts of a woman's story that usually get edited out — reclaimed with humour, tenderness and zero apology.
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The messy work of becoming
Not a "how I fixed my life" fairytale — a real portrait of what it means to keep becoming yourself, in public and in private.
About the Book
A raw, funny, intimate, unapologetically honest memoir.
Built From the Sh*t That Broke Me is Connie Walton's story of unbecoming the woman she was told to be — and rebuilding, in her own words, on her own terms. It moves through burnout, motherhood, complicated love, divorce, sexuality and spirituality, without flinching from any of it.
What makes it distinctive is the tone: tender where it needs to be, sharp where it needs to be, and refreshingly free of tidy conclusions. It is written for women who have spent too long inside a life that no longer fits — and who are ready to hear from someone who has been there.
- Formats
- Kindle Edition · Paperback
- Length
- 264 pages
- Language
- English
- Publication
- 26 July 2026
- Publisher
- Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
- ASIN
- B0HBNN89KW
For every woman who has ever felt trapped inside the life she created.
About Connie
The woman behind the memoir
Connie Walton is the author of Built From the Sh*t That Broke Me: A Memoir of Survival, Healing and Becoming. Her writing draws directly from her own lived experience — teenage motherhood, a nursing career, raising a son with autism, marriage, divorce, and the long, uneven work of finding herself again.
She writes for the woman who looks fine on the outside and exhausted on the inside — the one who has been holding everything together for years and is quietly wondering what happens if she finally puts some of it down.
The Final Word
If you've felt trapped inside your own life — this is your invitation out.
Read Connie's story. Bring your own alongside it. And begin the slow, honest work of becoming yourself again.
Available in Kindle Edition & Paperback · 264 pages · English