This is a beautifully written honest account about mental illness. A mother shares her journey with her daughter suffering from a mental illness. It is an emotional read.

Inspirational this author shares her story to educate and bring visibility to what living with a child braving a mental illness looks like and feels like. Her hope is that her memoir normalizes the mental health conversation, while providing others comfort and support in knowing their unique challenges and journeys are understood.

In the face of the countless stigma of mental health illness, this book is a welcomed relief. It is a beautifully written story by a mother. Mother Kristin Rohman Rehkamp shares her family's journey as her teenage daughter copes with her mental health illness. By sharing her journey, Rohman Rehkamp will help countless other families.

Finding Us
A Mother’s Memoir of Braving Mental Illness with her Young Daughter
by Kristin Rohman Rehkamp
Pub Date 15 Oct 2022
Atmosphere Press
Biographies & Memoirs | Health, Mind & Body


I am reviewing a copy of Finding Us through Atmosphere Press and Netgalley:




Kristin found herself terrified she would loose her daughter, she was unable to breathe her chest hurt, and she was experiencing loss of sensation in limbs, dizziness, and disorientation…all rolling up to a state of terror she had never before witnessed. It was September 16, 2020 and her life changed, suddenly and without warning, with her daughter’s onset of a panic disorder.




Living with mental illness is not an easy journey, and it is not an easy one, it’s messy and it’s complicated and it doesn’t affect only the person with the disability but their loved ones as well. Despite the best of efforts, it is an experience that those dealing with it cannot control, but instead bravely learn to live with, learn from, and feasibly teach others.


Kristin Roham Rehkamp shares her story to educate and bring visibility to what living with a child braving a mental illness looks like and feels like. It is her hope that sharing her story in Finding Us helps to normalize the mental health conversation, while providing others comfort and support in knowing their unique challenges and journeys are understood.



I give Finding Us five out of five stars!


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I enjoyed seeing a book about a family member's mental health struggles from the perspective of one taking care of that family member. I cried whenever you brought up your daughter's struggles and how you handled them. I liked how you included letters to your children throughout the book. It opened my eyes to what it must be like for my parents to take care of their 38-year-old daughter who had also just in the last 2 years has been released from a hospital mental health unit.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
There's no how-to book for parenting. The author tells her story of raising a child with mental illness and how that has affected her family as well. The panic attacks must be dreadful to get through and to witness.
This family is very fortunate to apparently be well off enough to get their daughter all the help they can. And their daughter is very fortunate to have a loving and supportive family.
Although there was a bit too much repetition for my liking, this was a pretty good book.