My name is Purity Mutheu, a 26-year-old from Nairobi, Kenya. I am a community developer, mental health advocate, and founder of Heavenly Aid Love Community, an initiative dedicated to creating spaces where people can heal and belong.

I studied Community Development at St. Paul’s University, and I serve in ministry through Y Hub Network and other spaces. At my core, I am someone who believes deeply in the power of healing, love, and purpose. I love cooking, adventure, learning about different cultures, and connecting with people.

Most importantly, I am a child of God who has lived through rejection and found freedom, and I cannot keep that freedom to myself.

The Book I Am Writing

I am writing a book titled Not a Mistake: Reclaiming Your Worth When the World Says Otherwise. It is a healing book for children born out of wedlock who have carried the shame of their circumstances, and for parents who have unknowingly projected their own pain onto their children.

The motivation is deeply personal. I was born out of wedlock and grew up carrying wounds I did not choose. My mother struggled to separate her pain from my existence, and for years I believed I was truly a mistake. It was only through God’s grace, therapy, and the love of a few key people that I began to heal and discover my worth.

When I realised millions of children share this silent wound, I knew I had to write. Not to expose anyone, but to tell every wounded child: you are not responsible for the circumstances of your birth. You were chosen by God before you were conceived. And healing is possible.

Facing Writer’s Block

Yes, I encountered writer’s block deeply and personally.

My biggest block was not a lack of words. It was emotion. Writing this book meant revisiting some of the most painful chapters of my life. There were days I would sit down to write and simply cry. I had thought I was fully healed, but the writing process revealed layers I had not yet touched.

What helped me most was giving myself permission to feel it without quitting. I would take breaks, pray, call my mentor, and remind myself why I was writing: not for me alone, but for every person who needed to read it.

I also learned to separate writing days from processing days. Some days I wrote. Other days I just sat with what had come up and let God minister to me through it.

The block was not the enemy. It was part of the healing.

Learning to Receive Feedback

Feedback was one of my greatest teachers in this class.

The positive feedback encouraged me deeply, especially in the early weeks when I was still unsure whether my story was worth telling. Hearing that the manuscript had emotional honesty and a strong ministry voice gave me courage to keep going.

The constructive feedback was harder to receive at first, but ultimately more valuable. When I was told the manuscript was too repetitive, that the genre was loose, and that the later chapters were too abstract, my first instinct was to feel discouraged. But I chose to see it as a gift. Someone had read my work carefully enough to tell me the truth. That is not rejection. That is investment.

I have learned that good feedback is not an attack on your story. It is a sharpening of how powerfully your story can reach people.

Prioritising Writing Alongside Life

Honestly, it required intentional sacrifice.

I had ministry commitments, community work, personal responsibilities, and life happening all at once. There were weeks when writing felt impossible. But I kept returning to my why: the child somewhere reading this who needs to know they are not a mistake.

What helped me was treating writing time as a non-negotiable appointment with purpose. Even if it was only thirty minutes, I showed up. I also leaned on my support system, my mentor Rev. Truphie, and my community, people who reminded me that this work mattered even when I was too tired to remember it myself.

I did not get it perfectly right every week. But I kept coming back. And consistency, even imperfect consistency, builds a book.

My Experience in the Jade Writing Class

The Jade Writing Class gave me something I did not know I needed: structure, accountability, and professional guidance for a message that had been living inside me for years.

Before this class, I had a story. By the end of it, I had a manuscript. The guidance on outline, genre, character, research integration, and the discipline of submitting chapter by chapter, all of it transformed raw experience into a book that can genuinely help people.

The feedback from Dr. Muthoni was honest, thorough, and given with the clear intention of helping me produce something excellent. That kind of professional investment is rare, and I am deeply grateful.

Would I recommend it? Absolutely and without hesitation. If you have a message inside you, a story, a truth, something that must be said, this class will help you say it well. Do not wait until you feel ready. Come as you are and let the process shape you.

A Word to Aspiring Writers and Beginning Authors

Your story is enough.

You do not need a perfect life, a perfect childhood, a perfect command of language, or a perfect plan. You need honesty, courage, and the willingness to begin.

The world does not need another polished, safe, comfortable book. The world needs your truth: the real, specific, lived truth that only you can tell because only you have lived it.

There will be hard days. Days when writing feels like reopening wounds you thought had closed. Days when the blank page feels like a verdict on your worthiness. Days when you wonder who you are to write this.

On those days, remember: you are not writing because you have arrived. You are writing because someone out there is still where you once were, and they need to know that the road leads somewhere.

Write for them. Write honestly. Write badly if you have to, and fix it later. But write.

Your story matters. More than you know.

Closing Reflection

My journey in CLC Kenya’s Jade Writing Class has reminded me that a book is not built in one perfect moment. It is built through surrender, courage, correction, tears, prayer, and the quiet decision to keep showing up. I came into the class carrying a story. I leave with a manuscript, a clearer voice, and a deeper conviction that God can use even the most painful parts of our lives to bring healing to others.