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Everything you need to cover Room to Begin: book details, bios, cover and headshots, and questions Marisol loves to answer.
At a glance
Room to Begin
- Title
- Room to Begin: Starting Over Without Burning Everything Down
- Author
- Marisol Contreras
- On sale
- February 10, 2027
- Formats
- Paperback, Kindle eBook
- Pages
- 248
- ISBN
- 978-0-000000-00-0 (paperback)
- Publisher
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- Category
- Self-help / Personal growth
- Also in
- Spanish — Espacio para empezar
About the book
Most advice about starting over assumes you'll quit, move or blow everything up. Room to Begin offers something gentler and more durable: twelve chapters, each built around a ten-minute weekly practice, that help readers clear space in the life they already have before deciding what comes next.
Drawing on her work as a clinical psychologist and minister, Marisol Contreras writes with warmth and precision for anyone carrying wounds they learned to hide.
Short bio
45 wordsMarisol Contreras is a writer, minister and clinical psychologist born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She practices in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where she works with people of all ages. Her book, Del dolor a la libertad interior: Aquel niño que aún me habla, grew out of her desire to walk alongside others through inner healing.
Long bio
121 wordsMarisol Contreras is a writer, minister and clinical psychologist born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She studied psychology at Cambridge College in Massachusetts and earned a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She now practices in Lawrence, Massachusetts, working with people of all ages. Her desire to walk alongside others through the process of inner healing is what inspired her to write Del dolor a la libertad interior: Aquel niño que aún me habla. [REPLACE: add media features, talks or other details if any.]
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Conversation starters
Interview questions
- Why does starting over so often mean burning everything down — and why doesn't that work?
- What is “the inventory,” and why does the book begin there instead of with goals?
- You’re a clinical psychologist and a minister. How do therapy and faith come together in your work and in this book?
- What's the ten-minute floor, and why is small more powerful than ambitious?
- How should someone tell friends and family they're changing?
- What do you say to a reader who keeps starting strong and falling off?
- Why publish in both English and Spanish at the same time?
Media contact
Working on a story, review or interview?
For review copies, interviews and excerpts, contact [REPLACE: publicist name] at hola@marisol-contreras.com, or send a request through the form.