Maggie Walters

Maggie is an award-winning author and mental health advocate, writing with unflinching honesty about complex trauma, dissociation, motherhood, adoption, and the hope and healing that she has experienced. Maggie is the author of SPLIT: a life shared: living with Multiple Personality Disorder and Fractured Motherhood, two deeply personal memoirs that explore survival, identity, resilience, and the enduring power of connection.
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In SPLIT, Maggie chronicles her experience living with dissociative identity disorder, offering lived experience insight into the realities of trauma and recovery while challenging stigma around complex mental health experiences. The memoir received critical acclaim for its courage, compassion, and lyrical storytelling, establishing Maggie as a powerful voice in conversations around mental health advocacy and healing.

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Her second memoir, Fractured Motherhood, turns toward motherhood, family, and repair. Drawing on her experiences adopting and raising three children from the Philippines, Maggie explores the complexities of parenting with the added layer of wrestling with her own complex mental health. The book examines adoption, love, grief, attachment, and how trauma ripples across generations. She asks, how do we heal and where do we find the courage to break the ties of trauma? What does it mean to be a mother?

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Through her writing, public speaking, podcast appearances, and advocacy work, Maggie creates space for important conversations about dissociation, abuse, motherhood, identity, and recovery. Her work blends vulnerability with hope, offering readers testimony to survival and the possibility of connection, understanding, and transformation.