Things I Left Beneath The Surface

This collection of poetry explores what it means to grow up as the quiet one...the one who learned to shrink, to adapt, and to take up as little space as possible just to stay safe and accepted.Through themes of people-pleasing, masking, emotional exhaustion, and self-abandonment, these poems reflect the weight of always trying to be "enough" for everyone else while slowly losing connection with yourself.But within the heaviness, there is also softness and change. A quiet unfolding of awareness. The beginning of learning that your voice matters, your needs matter, and you do not have to disappear to be worthy of love.These pages move through silence, survival, and the slow return to self...for anyone who is learning how to exist more fully, more honestly, and more freely.

Pagina's: 92, Paperback, Independently published