The Healing Kitchen

About the Book

This is a powerful, layered story, and it sets the stage for a deeply emotional and transformative narrative. Framing the book as memoir-like—recounted from a fifty-year-old Molly looking back on a childhood full of small-scale violence, suppressed magic, and buried truths—gives the story both intimacy and weight.

The author is building something mythic and deeply human: the story of a woman who reclaims herself, piece by piece, memory by memory—and with that reclamation, rediscovers the gifts that were always there.

The novel is told from the point of view of Molly at age fifty, during a pivotal moment in her adult life—a spiritual emergency and a traumatic trigger—something that cracks open the shell around her long-suppressed psychic gifts.

She begins to remember. Not just the facts of her childhood, but the layers: the patterns of emotional abuse, the denial of her reality, the psychic impressions and visions she had as a girl, and the moments she was gaslit into silence.

Each chapter is a return—to an age, an incident, a person. The narrative slips between present-day Molly and her child self, a dual voice echoing across time.

About the Author

Sophia Young is an accomplished chef with over thirty years of experience, specializing in healthy, holistic cuisine and medicinal herbalism. Her passion for nature and healing has taken her across nearly every state in the US, where she has foraged, explored, and deepened her connection to the land and sea.