New memoir combines intimate letters, multicultural insight, and therapeutic audio resources to help readers rebuild after profound loss
SAN ANTONIO, Fla. — In her deeply personal new memoir, Wombless: Letters to My Triplets, psychologist Salma Habib, PhD, shares the intimate letters she wrote to the three children she never had the opportunity to hold. Through these letters and the reflections they inspired, Habib explores grief, identity, forgiveness, resilience, and the possibility of rebuilding a meaningful life after profound loss.
Born from one of the deepest losses of Habib’s life, Wombless documents her decision to give grief space and meaning, rather than allowing it to become the final chapter of her story. The book includes the author’s original letters to her triplets, offering an intimate and deeply personal account of her grief and healing. Writing them helped her begin reconstructing her identity and sense of purpose.
Blending memoir with clinical insight, Habib examines the family patterns, cultural expectations, and deeply rooted beliefs that connected her worth to motherhood. Her “observer self” provides psychological perspective throughout the book, helping readers understand the emotional processes behind grief, identity loss, generational conflict, forgiveness, post-traumatic growth, and intentionally rebuilding one’s life.
The book also includes embedded QR codes that connect readers to audio recordings by the author. These exclusive tracks offer practical psychological guidance, helpful skills, and additional reflections on attachment, resilience, emotional healing, and personal transformation. Through the recordings, Habib creates a direct and ongoing conversation with readers centered on hope and growth.
An Arab American born and raised in the Middle East, Habib immigrated to the United States in 2004. She also lived in Egypt for three years. Her experiences across different cultures, combined with her work as a licensed psychologist, have shaped her understanding of identity development, loss, grief, intergenerational conflict, resilience, and healing.
Habib earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from Seton Hall University and her master’s degree in clinical psychology from Montclair State University, both in New Jersey. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and has served as an adjunct professor at the American University in Cairo, Seton Hall University, and Yeshiva University. She is currently a staff psychologist at the Rhode Island Hospital — Partial Hospitalization Program and is the owner of Wellbeing Psychology LLC.
Although rooted in one woman’s deeply personal experience, Wombless: Letters to My Triplets addresses universal themes intended for readers worldwide. The book will resonate with anyone navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, trauma, fractured relationships, difficult family dynamics, identity loss, or a major life transition, as well as mental health professionals, caregivers, support groups, and book clubs.
At a time when millions are navigating grief, uncertainty, and unexpected life transitions, Wombless offers a deeply personal reminder that healing is not about returning to who we were. It is about discovering who we can become.
