A Memoir of Spiritual Awakening
The Voice
I Had Forgotten
How God healed my silence
and made me listen again.
★★★★★ Readers in Brazil, the US, the UK & Portugal
Chapter One — Child of Silence
“You are weak. You are worthless.
You will never be anyone.”
I grew up hearing that I would amount to nothing. He didn't shout — he carved. The first time I heard it, I was still learning to write my own name.
But beneath the noise, there was another voice.
Faint, hidden — but alive.
The Years of Running
I tried to outrun the emptiness.
I moved countries. Changed jobs. Chased the next relationship, the next success, the perfect version of myself. I caught some of it. The emptiness stayed.
- Work I buried myself in it, and called exhaustion ambition.
- Love I asked other people to heal what was mine to face.
- Success I chased applause to quiet a voice that wasn't theirs.
“You can travel the whole world looking for peace. But if you are not at peace with yourself, it won't matter where you are.” — Krishnamurti
The Encounter With Love
Then someone stayed.
She sat across from me and didn't look away. She didn't try to fix me, explain me, or judge me. She just stayed. Present. And that healed me more than any therapy.
“Sometimes you don't need someone to save you. You just need someone to stay while you learn to stand.”
The Birth of New Meaning
We lost our first child at three months. I sat on the cold bathroom floor and asked, “God, why?” Only silence answered. And then — not in words, but in the spirit — I felt it: “I am still here.”
A year later, Aurora was born. March 27, 2025. Her first cry was the most sacred sound I have ever heard.
Everything I had lost had prepared the ground
for what I would treasure most.
Readers
People around the world are finding
their voice again.
“This isn't just a book. It's a mirror held up to your own forgotten voice, reflecting back the truth you've been too afraid to see.”
M.R. — São Paulo, Brazil
“It doesn't offer easy answers or hollow platitudes. It offers something far more valuable: permission to be human, broken, and loved by God at the same time.”
C.S. — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“As an immigrant, I felt deeply seen. The pain of losing yourself in pursuit of ‘something better,’ and the journey back to faith — it's my story too.”
R.N. — New York, USA
“A raw, authentic testimony that challenges everything you thought you knew about weakness, strength, and what it really means to hear God's voice again.”
D.F. — Lisbon, Portugal
The Book
Ten chapters. One journey home.
Part memoir, part quiet field-guide back to yourself. The Voice I Had Forgotten traces the road from a childhood of silence to a life of faith, purpose, and fatherhood — without easy answers, and without looking away from the pain.
- Child of Silence
- Rage and Isolation
- Attempts at Escape
- The Encounter with Love
- The Birth of New Meaning
- Building the New Self
- Creating a Legacy
- The World Still Hurts
- The Voice That Never Died
- Now It's Your Turn
Written for you
This book is for you if…
You built a life that works on the outside — but inside, you live in silence.
You moved, changed jobs, started over — and the emptiness followed you anyway.
You once felt God close, and somewhere along the way you stopped hearing Him.
“You're not lost. You just forgot who you are.”
About the Author
Jalison Cecato
Jalison grew up in a small inland town, where the everyday voices around him shaped how he saw the world. Early on, he found refuge in the silence of books, in God, and in writing — the tool he used to give a voice to his own experience.
The Voice I Had Forgotten is his testimony: not a self-help formula, but a real account of someone who was truly lost — and who discovered that being lost is often the prerequisite to being found.
Your voice is waiting.
You don't have to be ready. You only have to say: enough — I want to come home to myself.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28