Following a successfully launch on Saturday 01 February 2025, at The Foyer, Gracepoint, with an overwhelming audience of over 150 people, including the clergy, family and friends from various sectors. Together, this community of literature lovers, and healing activists gathered to celebrate a courageous story of love. Welcoming a fresh twist of embrace through diversity and inclusion, a group young women offered a refreshing item of Indian dance for the joy of all guests.

Wholeheartedly, is a bold encounter of a rollercoaster journey of love and reality, as the author paints a bare yet compassionate picture of her experience as a mother of an addict – extending to her unique lessons from working with over 200 case studies, alongside communities in Soweto and Eldorado Park, over the past ten years.

The narrative is a significant landmark in modern-Africa’s literary landscape, and a critical reminder of South Africa’s frail socio-economic ills - with addiction on a constant high. The book offers strategies for systematic changes as well as healing, including mechanisms not only for the addict, but for those living with, and loving the addict. A sheer eye-opener and invitation to living Wholeheartedly.

Through her lens as an African woman writer from the global south,  and an award winning poet whose work has won awards for the Hope and Healing library of South Africa. The author lays bare the enduring, and all-encompassing fundamental traits of love, family and support in relation to addiction – offering readers a reflective journey through the fond nuances of life.  

“In a world where everything says, ‘No Hope’ I beg to differ …” Nishani Ford.

With this latest literary offering as the current social buzz, encouraging people from all walks of life to have difficult conversations, below is a glimpse of views from avid readers:

“What a powerful testament of the resilience and love of a mother. Thank you Nishani Ford for being the voice to remove the stigma and shame of addiction and give a voice and face to people impacted. Your poetry is exceptional. It felt like I was right there with you as you battled through the darkness” Dr Sane Ngidi

“Nishani and her family put their hearts on the pages of this book. This family is able to stand tall, to reframe the shame and be beacon of hope to others. So many emotions on these pages and her writing style makes you live through each experience as though you were there with her” Dharshni Padayachee

“I sobbed through every page of your book. It all resonated with me. You are truly brave to bare your soul like that. Thank you so, so much for sharing.”

“A story of a tenacious single mother supporting her son through addiction, beautifully written and so real.”

About the Author:  

Nishani Ford is a passionate, free spirited, courageous person who lives life wholeheartedly no matter what comes her way. She is a single mom and grandmother who lives simply and gently with her family in Johannesburg, South Africa. Nishani is a woman of great faith which forms the foundation of how she chooses to show up in the world. She is also TEDx Speaker, Author, Coach, Storyteller, Narrator for the Voiceless working globally as a Transformational HR Professional. Her passion to see people truly empowered and growing makes her a hope carrier and a strong social justice activist.

How to buy your copy:

Visit Nishani Ford website to place your copy via this link: https://nishaniford.com/order-form/?a7sqlS7Q9gZkD0TU9HQ