MY MOTHER’S COATTAIL A Memoir by Charity Rose Winston

I once held onto my mother’s coattail just to survive the cold.

Now I hold onto God — and this is the story of how He carried me through every storm.

My Mother’s Coattail is the true memoir of a girl born on the same day Israel became a nation again — a child marked by sensitivity, spiritual awareness, and a destiny she couldn’t yet understand. Raised in instability and silence, she learned early how to disappear so others could feel big, how to endure what innocence should never have known, and how to listen for God in the shadows.

This is the story of a name taken without consent, an identity rewritten, and a little girl who lived between two worlds — the chaos of adults and the fragile hope of childhood.

But it is also the story of awakening.

The staircase of angels on the highway.

The tug of God on her spirit.

The calling she didn’t have language for.

The compassion that felt heavy until she realized it was a gift.

As she grew, life did not grow gentler. Motherhood arrived in the middle of chaos. Homelessness came without warning. Hardship pressed in from every side. Her children weathered storms she never wanted them to see — yet they carried a strength that humbled her. Through every season, she fought to protect them, rebuild, rise, and believe that God had not forgotten her.

And He hadn’t.

This memoir is not just about trauma — it is about transformation.

Not just survival — but calling.

Not just pain — but purpose.

It is the testimony of a God who never left, the children who gave her courage, and the woman who reclaimed her identity, her voice, and her destiny.

For anyone who has survived what they couldn’t explain…

For anyone who has held on just to make it through…

For anyone wondering if God still sees them…

This story is for you.

My Mother’s Coattail is more than a memoir.

It is a lantern for every woman still in the dark —

a reminder that your story is not over,

and a promise that God has been holding onto you all along.