Coming March 2027
Welcome Home
Where the people who shaped us still live.
About the book
What if finding yourself isn't about becoming someone new — but remembering who you were all along?
In Welcome Home, author, speaker, and songwriter Kristi J shares a deeply personal memoir about family, grief, faith, love, motherhood, loss, and the people whose influence continues long after a season — or a life — has ended.
Through stories spanning childhood in Southern California, marriage and motherhood, entrepreneurship, divorce, an empty nest, unexpected loss, and the rediscovery of her own voice, Kristi traces the people and experiences that shaped the woman she became.
Some stayed for a lifetime.
Some were only there for a season.
Some are no longer here.
But each left something behind.
Welcome Home is not a story about having life figured out. It is about learning to hold grief and gratitude in the same hand, honoring what was beautiful without needing to remain there, and finding the courage to listen again to the dreams and gifts that may have grown quiet along the way.
Woven throughout the memoir are stories of faith, family, friendship, music, and the ordinary moments that often become the ones we treasure most.
An invitation
Look at your own story differently
- Who believed in you?
- Who taught you how to love?
- Who made room for you?
- What have you carried forward from the people who came before you?
- And what parts of yourself might still be waiting for you to come home?
Who it's for
For readers navigating grief, divorce, an empty nest, life transitions, personal growth, faith, or the search for purpose, Welcome Home offers a hopeful reminder:
The people who shape us never entirely leave us. Their love becomes part of the home we carry within us.
- Grief and gratitude
- Faith and healing
- Family and friendship
- Life after divorce
- The empty nest
- Rediscovering your voice
Welcome Home: Where the People Who Shaped Us Still Live by Kristi J will be available in March 2027. Read more about Kristi or listen to the music behind the book.
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