This book was born from my own healing. The emotional trauma patterns that began early in life and echoed through nearly every relationship I carried into adulthood - until I finally broke the pattern. Until I chose myself. These poems are for the girl I once was, and for every woman still finding her way back. This is not a story of perfect healing.
This is the raw, beautiful, messy bloom that rises anyway.
Just like the beautiful lotus flower that must grow through mud and pond water to blossom (I have a lotus tattoo on my wrist to always remind me of that).