The Return Trip, Maya Golden
The Return Trip, Maya Golden
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The Return Trip
A Memoir

Author: Maya Golden

Narrator: Maya Golden

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

At age 30, Maya Golden was living a charmed life. She was an award-winning sports reporter, a loyal wife, and a new mom. Privately, she was battling addiction, perfectionism, dissociation disorders, and rage due to sexual abuse endured at the hands of her cousin and many other predators.  But Maya wants to change. So, on a family road trip back to her Texas hometown she is ready to put an end to the secrets that threaten her marriage and her career. Three separate moments of divine intervention ultimately saved Maya’s life.  From a suicide plan to the treatment facility to launching a non-profit organization—Maya’s story chronicles and dissects her journey to find purpose out of the trauma.

About Maya Golden

Maya Golden Bethany is an Associated Press winning and Emmy-nominated multimedia journalist in Texas. Maya is the winner of the Excellence in My Market Award (EMMA) from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is the founder of the 1 in 3 Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides recovery and counseling resources to survivors of sexual trauma with little to no income in East Texas. The Texas A&M alum’s career includes experiences as a sports anchor/reporter and television production editor, newscast writer, field producer and print writer. Maya has been featured on Bally Sports, Fox Sports College, and ESPN 2 and 3. She has written for Newsweek, Salon, Insider and BlackGirlNerds.com. Maya speaks as a survivor for organizations such as the Children’s Advocacy Center, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and Kids Aspiring to Dream. Maya is a member of the Writer’s League of Texas and a second-place winner of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2024 Parent-Writer Fellowship. Her first fiction novel, political thriller The Senator, releases April 15, 2025.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Book.ishJulie on November 15, 2023

The Return Trip: A Memoir by Maya Golden is such a powerful read! I've read a lot of memoirs, but never one like Golden's. There is a thread of hope and resilience from the very beginning when we learn what has shaped Golden's life filter. Although it was incredibly heartbreaking to read, I simply cr......more

Goodreads review by Corky on September 05, 2023

Major trigger warnings for this one; specifically sexual assault and suicide. This is an incredibly intimate recount of Golden's experiences with addiction, sexual abuse, and her early journey in sobriety. The first half of this book was craftily organized to keep the reader turning pages as Golden f......more

Goodreads review by Susan on December 03, 2023

An Impactful Read!! This book courageously and authentically shares a journey of healing. Not a how-to by any means, but such a representation of how you can heal and own your story, the beginning, ending and most importantly the messy middle. This writer took the hard road which is what it takes to......more

Goodreads review by Country Mama on November 16, 2023

I enjoyed the memoir about Maya’s life so far. She has had a lot of tragedy in her life so I was surprised as I started to read the book. The first part of the book is filled with so many things that happened to her when she was a child. I was engaged in the writing and the story being conveyed. This......more

Goodreads review by Riss 🫶🏻☕️ on November 16, 2023

Over the last couple of years, I have read a lot of memoirs and I’m always interested to learn about other people and their lives. Maya Golden’s is no exception, I was truly invested in reading about her because of the strength and willpower I felt in the beginning. We learn of her trauma and how sh......more

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