This is a book you can give to another woman.
To a friend who smiles in public but cries in silence.
To a sister stuck in a toxic love story.
To a mother who has been strong for everyone her whole life and can’t carry it anymore.
To a daughter who is walking into the same pattern but won’t listen to words — maybe she’ll listen to truth.
It’s not a gift wrapped with a ribbon.
It’s a gift wrapped in honesty. And sometimes that’s exactly what we need.
Not every wound bleeds.
Not every story can be told without shaking hands.
This is not a novel. It’s not a motivational self-help guide.
It’s the journal of a woman who walked through hell — and decided to come back to herself.
It’s a book about women who learned how to survive long before they learned how to live.
About growing up without a mother.
About a father who was only a name.
About a child forced to become an adult too soon.
About loving a narcissist. About addiction, betrayal, assault, loss, and PTSD that keeps coming back even when the world thinks “you should be over it by now.”
The first part is the breaking — a childhood without love, toxic relationships, endless begging for attention from people who only take.
The second part is the becoming — not pretty, not quick, but real.
It starts with the first question: Why do I keep choosing pain?
Then more questions come. Awareness. Anger. Therapy.
And kintsugi — the gold filling the cracks instead of hiding them.
The moment a woman understands: she is not broken. She doesn’t need to be perfect. She is allowed to live.
This book is not for everyone.
It’s for those who no longer pretend that everything is fine.
For those who want to know what trauma really looks like from the inside — and what life can look like after.
For women who walked through fire and are still breathing.
And for those who want to understand why someone stops trusting — and how they learn to trust again.
If you’re looking for a book that is honest rather than polite —
if you want to give someone (or yourself) courage instead of silence —
this story stays with you.