Buried not Broken: A Journey from Survival to Self: Trauma, Transformation, Evolution
What if you were never broken?
What if you were simply buried beneath everything you had to become to survive?
From the age of seven, Jade Blake knew she didn't want to live in a world that felt so cruel.
Growing up surrounded by trauma, addiction, instability and fear, she learned what so many of us learn when life becomes too much too soon: how to survive.
Be strong.
Keep going.
Make people laugh.
Don't need too much.
And whatever you do, don't let anyone see what is happening underneath.
Years later, Jade had built a life that looked functional from the outside. She was a mother, a professional working with children and families, and the person other people turned to for support.
But behind the mask were insomnia, anxiety, depression, addiction, shame and a nervous system that had never truly learned it was safe.
Buried Not Broken: A Journey from Survival to Self is the raw, compassionate and sometimes darkly funny story of what happened when Jade finally stopped running from her pain and began listening to it.
Part memoir, part healing companion, this book explores trauma, forgiveness, self-love, inner-child healing, shadow work, creativity, addiction and coping, the mind-body connection, spirituality, manifestation and what it really means to break generational cycles.
Along the way, you'll find powerful reflections, meditations and practices designed not to "fix" you, but to help you understand yourself with greater compassion.
Because perhaps the anxiety, people-pleasing, hyper-independence, numbing, perfectionism or need for control were never evidence that something was wrong with you.
Perhaps they were ways you learned to survive.
And perhaps you don't need to become somebody new.
Perhaps you need to come home to who you were before survival taught you to hide.
This is not a book about pretending the past didn't happen.
It is about keeping the wisdom and releasing the pain.
It is about discovering that healing isn't linear, forgiveness doesn't require reconciliation, and breaking the cycle doesn't require perfection.
Most of all, it is about hope.
Jade once believed the darkness she carried was simply who she was.
Today, she knows differently.
The cloud lifted.
And she wrote this book to leave a light on for anyone still finding their way through the dark.
You were never broken.
You were buried. It's time to come home to yourself.Customer Reviews
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