The Way Back Home is all about finding lasting peace and joy for our troubled mind in a complicated world.

Welcome! My name is Sunita Merriman and I am a poet, writer, and board certified sleep specialist.

After a transformative experience of healing from attachment and complex childhood trauma, I released my first book of poetry, Stripping- My Fight to Find Me. Over the past decade, I have shifted the focus of my life and career to continue to write poetry and develop what it, and my lived experience offers others in their journey of healing, personal growth, self- actualization and thriving wellness.

Trauma is the epidemic of our times.

I found my way back home only after decades of suffering from depression, anxiety, despair, excruciating and debilitating bouts of chronic pain, inter- personal relational challenges, and many other symptoms of attachment and complex childhood trauma.

Ironically, from the outside, you would never have guessed I suffered so deeply as I managed to build a highly successful career and family life. But I was broken and lost inside. And my success came at a steep price to my loved ones and me.

Unfortunately, my story is neither unique nor uncommon.

Mine is a typical story of transgenerational trauma. It is insidiously passed down from one generation to the next and affects the entire family system.

But I learned that trauma can be the doorway to our awakening.

Despite the pain and suffering it inflicted on me, trauma also gave me the opportunity to grow, transform and transcend.

I now know we are not meant to suffer alone or go about the hard task of healing on our own. We are designed to help each other, and to be helped by others.

The Way Back Home is neither a lifestyle, nor a way of living.

TWBH is a way of being.

If you’re curious to learn a bit more about me and my mission head over to-I’m Pleased to Introduce Myself to You

Come join me here on this incredibly exciting journey of reclaiming ourselves!

In addition to being a poet and an author, Sunita graduated with honors from New York University, College of Dentistry. Her career as a clinician in private practice spanned close to three decades during which she earned Diplomate status with both the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine and the American Board of Craniofacial Sleep Medicine, a distinction awarded to less than 1% of dentists in the US. Sunita founded the New Jersey Dental Sleep Medicine Center in Westfield, New Jersey with the understanding that sleep is the driver of our overall mind-body health, wellbeing, healthy longevity and potential to thrive.

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