Throughout my 20s, I navigated the complex landscape of mental health challenges, addiction, and the difficult journey toward recovery. These experiences, while incredibly painful, have shaped me into the person I am today.
There were times when I felt completely alone—standing in rooms full of people yet feeling isolated in slow motion. There were moments when I smiled on the outside while dying inside. I struggled with feelings of powerlessness, losing time to darkness I couldn't escape.
But through it all, I found something unexpected: my voice. Poetry became my way of making sense of the chaos, of processing the overwhelming emotions that threatened to consume me. Each poem was a step toward understanding, toward healing, toward coming back to myself.
This book is a collection of the darkest parts of my mind—the ebbs and flows of my mental health journey and the path to coming back to myself again.