A Powerful Way to Tell Your Personal-Story

Her book, Happy Me, Happy We: 6 Steps to know yourself so you know what you want in a relationship, is about finding happiness in yourself before finding happiness in a relationship—especially if you’re already married.

In her book, Sarah, a marriage therapist, tells some heartbreaking, tough and inspiring stories.

Sarah Ruggera, licensed marriage counselor

In particular, we share what I call her Expert Origin Story™. Just as every great comic book superhero has an origin story that launches them to greatness, so does every entrepreneur and visionary.

In an Expert Origin Story™ we show an author’s most vulnerable moment, which launched their journey to mastery. The lessons the shero learns along the way form the key points of the book.

Sarah's book where she shares her personal-story

In Sarah’s Expert Origin Story™, she tells how she came home one day to an empty house, with a note from her husband saying he needed time away from her.

Enraged, she stalked him at his office, hunted him down at his hotel and publicly abused him verbally for leaving her. Needless to say, they divorced. The devastation and shame launched her on a quest of introspection and therapy about how to have happiness within regardless of a spouse.

Twenty-five years later, she is a renowned marriage therapist, specializing in affairs intervention. Her book shares her no-nonsense methods for happiness in life and marriage. As a therapist, she has helped hundreds of couples regain joy and fulfillment.

Sarah’s stories of her clients provide riveting narrative. But it’s her Expert Origin Story™ that creates a powerful emotional bond with her audience.

by Helen Chang, ABM Editorial Director