In The Stillness Between Words

By Olivia Galligan

In the Stillness Between Words is a soul-baring of what it means to grow into womanhood while carrying the weight of love, loss, lust, abuse, and trauma. This collection weaves together intimate fragments of lived experience-moments whispered, screamed, buried, and finally spoken-into a lyrical testament of survival and transformation.

Each poem exists in the quiet spaces where feelings are too big for conversation, where the unsaid begins to take shape.

Through raw, unfiltered language and tender reflection, the speaker peels back layers of identity, revealing a heart that has been shattered and remade-again and again. The collection does not offer easy answers, nor does it romanticize pain.

Instead, it traces a path through the complexity of desire, the ache of abandonment, and the long, winding road of healing.

At its core, In The Stillness Between Words is about reclaiming power-through softness, through rage, through truth-telling. It is an ode to the unspoken stories that live in our bodies, the resilience stitched into our silence, and the quiet revolution that happens when a woman learns to name her own worth. This book is for anyone who has endured, evolved, and dared to love again-especially themselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FK1N67SS
• ISBN13: 9798218746216
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Olivia Galligan
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"