How do you build a future when the person you are trying to escape lives inside you?
Born into poverty, violence and fear, Lenna learns early that survival depends on silence. Displaced from everything familiar, she moves through foster care, mental health crises and relationships that repeat the dangers she is trying to leave behind.
Each time Lenna begins to rebuild, the past finds another way in. Yet beneath the shame, abandonment and self-doubt, a different version of her is quietly taking shape-one capable of questioning the life she inherited and imagining something more.
Inspired by lived experience, Thinking Me: From Silence to Scalpel is an intimate and unflinching work of autobiographical fiction exploring childhood trauma, identity, ambition, generational wounds and the stories we create in order to survive.
This is not simply a story about escaping the past. It is about understanding how the mind can become both a hiding place and a source of transformation.
And who might you become when silence is no longer your only protection?