You’re Not Broken — You’re Healing: Why I Wrote The Healing Book: What I Never Said Out Loud

The Healing Book is divided into short reflections — personal, unfiltered thoughts from my own experience with emotional burnout, survival mode, and the aftermath of trauma (especially trauma that isn’t always recognized or validated). Some chapters are a few paragraphs. Some are a little longer. But none of them are polished or performative. This is the raw stuff.

Here are a few things the book explores:

• The long-term emotional effects of emotional abuse, especially the kind that’s dismissed or minimized by others

• What it feels like to grieve the life you thought you’d have — and the version of you that never got to fully exist

• Being the “strong one” in your family or friend group, and what it costs to constantly hold yourself together for others

• The numbness that creeps in after years of chronic pain, medical trauma, or trying to survive quietly

• How self-worth gets rewritten after caretaking, codependency, or being someone's emotional crutch

• What healing really looks like — especially when you’re still hurting, still figuring it out, still not “there yet”

It’s not chronological. It’s not a story with a neat ending. It’s a conversation. A mirror. A soft place to sit with things you may have never had space to process.

Who The Book Is For

This book is for:

• People who are emotionally exhausted from pretending they’re fine

• People who’ve done years of therapy and still feel stuck

• People who are deeply sensitive, deeply aware, and deeply tired

• People who grew up in environments that taught them to shrink or self-sacrifice to stay safe

• People navigating chronic illness, trauma, grief, or the aftermath of being misunderstood for too long

And also — it’s for people who don’t want to be told to “just journal about it” with no context. That’s why every chapter includes a short, open-ended reflection prompt — something to sit with, not something to fix.

You don’t need to write an essay. You don’t need to have answers. You just need to let yourself feel something again.

What's Inside The Book

If you're wondering what to expect before you download, here’s a breakdown of what’s included and how it’s structured — so you can decide if it feels like the right fit for where you are right now.

• Digital format (PDF) — easy to open on any device, no shipping or waiting required

• Two-part structure — a mix of personal reflections and guided journal prompts, woven together to mirror the way healing often moves: back and forth, not in a straight line

• 21 chapters + 21 prompts — short, emotional essays followed by gentle questions that invite you to explore your own inner world

• Read at your own pace — you can go in order, skip around, reread, or just sit with a single page; there’s no “right” way to move through it

• Available for $10 on my Ko-fi shop — a one-time purchase that supports the continued creation of healing tools for our community

This isn’t the kind of book you race through or check off like a to-do list. It’s something you return to — when you’re feeling heavy, when you need to hear words that don’t ask you to perform, when you want to feel less alone in what you’re carrying. Whether you engage with every chapter or only a few, my hope is that this book feels like a soft place to land. You don’t have to have the answers. You don’t have to heal perfectly. You’re allowed to take your time, feel things in pieces, and circle back when you’re ready. That’s still healing. And it still counts.

Honoring the Work Behind These Pages

This is the only offering in my shop that isn’t pay-what-you-can — and that choice was intentional. I spent years living, feeling, and writing what’s inside this book. Every chapter was shaped with emotional labor, personal reflection, and a deep desire to create something that felt real — not polished, not performative, just honest.

When you purchase The Healing Book, you’re not just downloading a PDF. You’re supporting the ongoing creation of mental health tools made by someone who understands what it means to move through the world with invisible weight. You’re helping me continue to make space — for you, for others, for the parts of ourselves that are still learning how to rest, soften, and come back to life.

If This Finds You Mid-Healing