“Stories don’t offer maps. They offer companionship.” 

Some losses happen in an instant. Others unfold so quietly that we don’t realize our lives have changed until we’re standing in a world we no longer recognize. 

Held in the Vanishing is a memoir about learning to attend to life differently when the people we love begin to disappear. 

Drawn from years of caring for both of her parents as they navigated different forms of dementia - Alzheimer's and Primary Progressive Aphasia, Ti Mougne invites readers into the quiet terrain of anticipatory grief, changing identity, and enduring love. Told through intimate vignettes, the memoir is less concerned with answers than with what becomes possible when we stay present to life's unfolding. 

This is not a story of redemption or tidy acceptance. It lingers with disappearance, identity, and love—not to resolve them, but to discover what remains when certainty gives way to presence. 

For anyone who has loved through uncertainty, grieved a life that changed slowly, or searched for meaning in the ordinary moments that hold us together, Held in the Vanishing offers companionship, witness, and the quiet assurance that we do not walk these roads alone.

Ti Mougne is a writer, photographer, and leadership coach whose work explores what becomes possible when we become more deeply attuned to truth, beauty, and goodness. Through her writing and fine art photography, she invites people to slow down, notice what often goes unseen, and encounter the world with greater presence.

Held in the Vanishing is her first memoir. Inspired by her experience caring for both her parents through different forms of dementia, it reflects her belief that some change cannot be managed—it can only be accompanied.

Ti lives in Colorado with her husband and son, where she continues to write, make photographs, and explore the practice of poetic attunement.