Poisoned Promises
She learned far too young that home was not always a safe place, that adults could become the source of fear, and that asking for help did not always mean someone would come to save her.
From childhood abuse and neglect to sexual violence, psychiatric hospitalizations, guardianship, foster and residential systems, self-harm, suicide attempts, and years spent searching for somewhere she could finally feel safe, Callie's life became a fight for survival. Again and again, she reached for help. Again and again, doors closed. The people who were supposed to protect her sometimes failed her, doubted her, or taught her that her emotions were too much.
But this is not only a story about what was done to her.
It is a story about what happened inside the girl who survived it.
Through fragmented memories, emotional wounds, silence, and the things her body remembered even when her mind could not, Callie begins piecing together a life that was never as hopeless as it once felt. She confronts the people, systems, and experiences that taught her to fear her own voice-and begins discovering that surviving was never the end of her story.
This is a journey through darkness toward something harder than survival: becoming her own person.
A story of trauma, resilience, grief, rage, love, and reclamation, this memoir asks a haunting question: What happens when the child who spent her entire life waiting to be saved finally learns that she can save herself?
She was silenced.
She was doubted.
She was trapped.
But she survived.
And now, she is finally telling the story in her own voice.
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