Description
What happens when the stories others have written about you become the story you believe about yourself?
For much of her life, Carmen Renee Samb carried experiences that could easily have defined her.
Childhood sexual abuse. An absent father. Family secrets. Teenage pregnancy and the devastating loss of her daughter. Difficult relationships. Divorce. Rejection. Anger. Expectations. The relentless pressure to remain strong, independent and successful even while parts of her past remained unresolved.
In Not Worthy, Carmen strips away those layers and tells her story with extraordinary openness.
From her childhood in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth to her career in nursing, years in Johannesburg and life and work in Saudi Arabia, Carmen reflects on the people, cultures, relationships and experiences that shaped the woman she became.
But this memoir is not simply an account of what happened to her.
It is the story of what happened after.
As memories resurface and Carmen begins examining the patterns running through her life, she confronts long-held anger, complicated relationships with family, questions of identity, faith, forgiveness and her own fierce independence. Slowly, the woman who had learnt to survive begins learning how to live differently.
Her journey leads to a powerful realisation:
What happened to you may become part of your story, but it does not determine your worth.
Deeply personal, faith-filled and at times confronting, Not Worthy speaks especially to women and girls who have experienced abuse, rejection, loss, broken relationships or the feeling that their circumstances have somehow made them less deserving of love, purpose or a future.
Carmen does not present a perfect life or an instant transformation. Instead, she offers something more valuable — an authentic account of remembering, questioning, forgiving, letting go and choosing to move forward.
It is a memoir about generational wounds and personal responsibility. About mothers, fathers, daughters and sons. About relationships and independence. About honour, culture, faith and grace.
Above all, it is about reclaiming the truth that no circumstance, mistake, relationship or opinion of another person has the authority to decide your value.
For anyone who has ever looked at their past and wondered whether they could begin again, Not Worthy delivers a deeply personal message:
The story is not over. You are still here. And you are worthy.
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