Name: Finding Lucy: A Journey of Wellness, Self-Discovery and Transformation
Author: Lucy Mworia

About the Book

Finding Lucy is about health. It is about weight loss - losing thirty kilograms was an important part of Lucy's story. It is about fasting, movement, food, choices, and the practical lessons that helped her change.

But it is also about something much bigger than any of those things.

It is for the woman who has achieved much and still wonders when she disappeared from her own priorities. It is for the mother who is always needed and has become accustomed to putting herself last. It is for the caregiver, the professional, the leader, the woman beginning again after disappointment or loss.

Told with warmth, honesty, and a great deal of humour - including a notorious incident on a boat in Zanzibar - this is Lucy Mworia's invitation to every woman: choosing yourself is not selfish. Beginning again does not belong only to the young.

Who This Book Is For

For the woman who has achieved much - and still wonders when she disappeared from her own priorities.
For the leader who is always needed, and has become accustomed to putting herself last.
For the caregiver searching for permission to finally include herself among the people she cares for.
For anyone beginning again after disappointment, discovering that decline is not the only story left.

The Three-Part Journey

PART ONE - The Woman I Missed

"A woman can leave home and still carry a version of herself there. Sometimes returning is how she discovers how much both have changed."

Going Home · When the Plan Does Not Become the Life · Huyu Mama Ni Kibonge · The Photograph · How Did I Get Here? · The Seed

PART TWO - Choosing Lucy

"Haba na haba hujaza kibaba." - Little by little fills the measure.

I Cleaned Out the Kitchen · Seven Kilograms of Evidence · The Hill Called Discipline · Bofa Road · I Danced My Way Back · The Photograph on My Screen

PART THREE - The Woman I Found

"The woman I was looking for was not behind me. She was waiting inside the life I was still willing to build."

The Weight I Really Lost · Taking Myself With Me · Food, Culture and the Right to Decide · Purpose Without Disappearing Again · Choose Yourself · The Woman I Found

Also Inside

The Choose Yourself Pledge

A declaration to put yourself back on the list.

Thirty Journal Invitations

Questions designed for deep reflection.

Eight Things I Know Now

Hard-won truths about health and age.

Letters of Hope

A note to her granddaughters, and to the woman almost giving up.

Key Themes

Reclaiming Your Health

How Lucy began at 115kg, walked Bofa Road in Kilifi daily, danced to Miriam Makeba in her living room, and lost 30 kilograms - one disciplined choice at a time.

Choosing Yourself

The discovery that putting yourself on your own list is not selfishness. It is the only form of responsibility that belongs entirely to you.

Ageing Without Disappearing

A challenge to the idea that decline is inevitable, and an invitation to live the next decade with curiosity, strength, and deliberate joy.

Dedicated to Murithi Mworia

"Keep going, Mum." - His words are woven into every page of this book.

Price: KES 2,500

Where To Get Your Copy

Available Now at Nuria Bookstore

Order online for delivery to your doorstep across Kenya, or walk into the bookstore in Nairobi CBD.

Order on Nuria Kenya → 0794.233.261

Physical Location: The Bazaar Plaza, Moi Avenue, Nairobi CBD, 1st Floor

Bookstore: Nuria Bookstore · Phone: 0794.233.261

Excerpt

"I thought I was searching for a smaller body; I was really searching for myself."

- Lucy Mworia, Finding Lucy

Published by Ssali Publishing House | Chief Editor: Rose Ssali | 2026

During this journey, Lucy also found and purchased the Kilifi Wellness & Holiday Villa - a place that has since become a marker of this chapter of her life.