Becoming Whole, Volume I: A Journey of Resilience, Love, Liberation, and Becoming Whole (Volume I)

Becoming Whole is the raw, unfiltered testimony of a man who has lived many lives—and is finally telling the truth about all of them.

Born into the strict world of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Eric Darnell Love grew up navigating silence, complexity, and spiritual pressure long before he understood what freedom really was. As a young Black boy in Chicago, his early years were marked by family struggle, religious rigidity, and the unspoken weight of trying to survive emotionally while everyone expected him to stay strong.

When he left home as a teenager to start over in Minnesota, Eric discovered resilience he didn’t know he had. His journey took him through military service in the United States Air Force, early fatherhood, marriage, divorce, and eventually into a second marriage that has lasted fourteen years—one filled with deep love, challenges, emotional disconnect, healing, and the hard work of rebuilding trust.

A 100% disabled veteran living with PTSD, anxiety, and the emotional aftermath of service and trauma, Eric writes with honesty and a voice that is unpolished on purpose. His story is not sanitized. It is not softened. It is true.

In this first volume of his memoir series, Eric shares:


- Growing up as a child in Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Navigating family dysfunction, loyalty, and the search for identity
- Becoming a husband and father while battling trauma, responsibility, and expectations
- The quiet grief of losing loved ones—and the strength required to keep going
- His battle to reclaim his voice, his faith, his emotional freedom, and his manhood
- His awakening—spiritually, mentally, and relationally—as he learns what it means to truly become whole

This is the story of a man who carried everyone’s burdens but his own for far too long…

and finally chose healing over silence.