The Child Before the Tunnel: The Missing Step Before Survival

By Victoria Taylor

Before the tunnel, there was a child.

Before the survival, before the steps, before the framework, there was a little girl who learned to disappear. Who learned that her feelings were too much, her needs were inconvenient, and her voice was better kept silent. Who grew up carrying wounds she did not yet have words for, into a life that would eventually demand she face them.

The Child Before the Tunnel is the missing step. The book that asks the question most healing journeys skip entirely: what happened to you before it all began?

Written by trauma survival specialist, speaker, author, and coach Victoria Taylor, this book takes you back before the trauma you named, to the experiences that shaped how you survived it. Because you cannot fully understand the tunnel without first understanding the child who walked into it.

This is not a book about blame. It is not a book about dwelling in the past. It is a book about finally understanding yourself completely, so that the healing you have already begun can go deeper than it ever has before.

The child you were deserves to be seen. This book sees her.

The Tunnel Series by Victoria Taylor.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 106687641X
• ISBN13: 9781066876419
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Mindset + Mastery
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"