What do you do when life gives you every reason to give up?

For years, Tebele Makhetha was building the life she had prayed for - a successful career, a growing family and a future filled with possibility. Then life began to unravel.

A breast cancer diagnosis. Later, the words, 'it has spread'. A marriage that ended. Career uncertainty. The emotional weight of motherhood, loss and unanswered questions.

Suddenly, the future she had imagined looked very different from the one she was living.

Yet amid the heartbreak, hospital visits, scan results and setbacks, Tebele discovered something unexpected: courage is not found in having all the answers; it is found in making a choice.

A choice to keep believing.

A choice to keep hoping.

A choice to keep living.

With honesty, warmth and remarkable vulnerability, I Choose Life is a deeply moving memoir about faith, resilience, identity, healing and the lessons that emerge when life does not go according to plan.

More than a story about illness, I Choose Life is a story about what it means to live fully, love deeply and trust God even when the path ahead is unclear.

Life does not always give us a choice about what happens to us.

But, every day, it gives us a choice about how we will respond.

And sometimes, the bravest choice we can make is simply this ... to choose life.