THE WALK BACK HOME: A Poetry Collection of Loss, Faith, Love, and Returning to Yourself

The Walk Back Home is a poetry collection about what happens after survival. Through poems about heartbreak, grief, faith, motherhood, boundaries, self-worth, love, and spiritual growth, Laura Marie White explores what it means to rebuild after life has changed you. These poems speak to the moments when you realize you have been carrying too much, staying too long, grieving deeply, or shrinking yourself to fit inside places that were never meant to hold you.The collection follows the journey from self-abandonment and loss into clarity, faith, self-trust, and the courage to live open again. It reflects on the relationships that teach us what love should never cost, the people whose absence continues to shape us, the faith we rebuild when answers do not come quickly, and the quiet work of becoming someone we can finally live inside. Healing is not presented as a straight line, but as a process of remembering, releasing, rebuilding, and learning what deserves to come forward with us.The Walk Back Home is for anyone who has ever had to begin again, walk away from what was hurting them, grieve someone they could not keep, rediscover their faith, or learn how to choose themselves without guilt. Sometimes moving forward is not about becoming who you were before the pain. Sometimes it is about finding your way back to the person you were never supposed to lose.