A bilingual movement of hope and healing

Own Your Story
Before It Owns You

A real story of pain, recovery, forgiveness, faith, and redemption—presented as the front door to a mission-driven platform serving readers, churches, recovery communities, institutions, and bilingual audiences across the U.S. and Latin America.

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Faith Recovery Forgiveness Redemption Bilingual Mission
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“Your past can explain you. It doesn’t have to define you.”

— The Own Your Story Fellowship
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Connection. Healing. Redemption.

A story told with honesty can become a place of refuge, courage, and renewal. This visual motif draws from the themes of restoration, spiritual growth, and a life rebuilt into service.

Illustration inspired by Catholic themes of light, healing, forgiveness, and redemption

From trauma to transformation

Nelson F. Hincapie’s message is not positioned as a memoir alone, but as an invitation into a broader movement of healing, forgiveness, sobriety, faith, and redemption. The story moves honestly through pain while keeping hope at the center.

From personal testimony to public mission, the invitation is simple: bring this message into families, recovery circles, churches, classrooms, and communities that need language for healing and hope.

01
Pain

Trauma, abandonment, abuse, addiction, and shame form the truthful beginning of the story.

02
Turning Point

Recovery, faith, and community create a path away from despair.

03
Forgiveness

Freedom grows when forgiveness becomes lived, not merely discussed.

04
Service

The story opens outward into advocacy, leadership, speaking, and fellowship-building.

For people carrying pain that still feels unresolved

The message speaks to those living with trauma, abuse, addiction, shame, loss, betrayal, anxiety, depression, and spiritual exhaustion—while offering a language of hope, compassion, recovery, and restoration.

Trauma
Abuse
Addiction
Shame
Loss
Betrayal
Anxiety
Depression
Faith
Recovery
Healing
Redemption

Hear the voice behind the message

In this conversation, Nelson shares the heart behind the message: how pain, faith, compassion, and forgiveness can become a path toward healing.

“I was not happy until I managed to forgive.”

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“At that place and for the first time in my life someone asked me, what happened? Instead of what’s wrong with you? There I learned that compassion is the key to healing.”

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Message moments worth highlighting

“After months of editing, the book is finally out and available on Amazon.”

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A memoir that opens the door to healing — now in English and Spanish

One story, two languages. Pick the edition that meets you where you are.

Own Your Story Before It Owns You: a Memoir by Nelson F. Hincapie — English edition paperback

Own Your Story Before It Owns You: a Memoir

By Nelson F. Hincapie · Paperback · English

The original English edition of Nelson's bilingual story through pain, recovery, faith, and redemption.

Cuando tu Historia se Convierte en TU HISTORIA — Spanish edition paperback by Nelson F. Hincapie

Cuando tu Historia se Convierte en: TU HISTORIA

By Nelson F. Hincapie · Paperback · Spanish Edition

Now in Spanish — so every family and Spanish-speaking community can open the door to healing, forgiveness, and redemption.

Both editions are by the same author and tell the same story of healing.

Designed for readers, groups, events, and mission partners

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For book clubs, classrooms, ministries, and guided discussions.

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A larger mission beyond the memoir

Through storytelling, media, faith, recovery, and community, The Own Your Story Fellowship exists to help people discover that healing is possible, forgiveness is possible, and redemption is possible.

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Walk with us in this mission

Every contribution — large or small — helps fuel storytelling, media, speaking, and community-building for the mission ahead. If this message has touched you, your family, or your community, we invite you to step into the story with us.

The Own Your Story Fellowship is a 501-aligned mission platform. Full partner prospectus available below.

Start a real conversation

Reach out for speaking invitations, group book orders, fellowship partnerships, or general questions. We’d love to hear how this message can serve your audience and community.

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Bring hope to your audience

Explore the book, share the story, invite Nelson to speak, or connect with the fellowship to help this message reach people who need healing, faith, and hope.

Both editions on Amazon · 100% of proceeds fuel the Project of Forgiveness