07/08/2025
Looking for “gentle” but constructive feedback. I’ve been writing a book for sometime and just finished the prologue. If you read this, would you be interested in reading the book?? It’s about the “after” to all the hell you have lived through.
“There’s a stillness I live in now.
It didn’t arrive gently.
It came after everything fell apart—again and again—louder each time, until there was nothing left but me and the silence that refused to leave.
Not the peaceful kind of silence.
Not the kind you crave after a long day.
The kind that presses against your chest and asks,
“Now what?”
I don’t know what version of me made it out.
The mother who lost her baby.
The wife who broke her husband’s heart.
The addict who lied, begged, hid, clawed her way back.
The girl who never wanted to be strong but had no other choice.
Some days, survival feels like a miracle.
Other days, it feels like punishment.
But every morning I wake up in this quiet,
and I remind myself:
This is the after.
This is where I begin again.”
Thanks for taking the time to read. ❤️🩹
