Some losses come from growing up without the love, safety, and acceptance you were supposed to receive. They come from grieving the childhood you never had, the identity you were never allowed to discover, and the version of yourself you had to leave behind just to survive.

Where I Go From Here is a deeply personal collection of poems exploring traumatic grief, healing, and the journey of finding yourself after years of feeling lost. Through the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, these poems navigate the complicated emotions of grieving what was never there while learning to embrace what remains.

For anyone who has questioned their worth, struggled to separate themselves from someone else's expectations, or mourned a life they never got to live, these pages offer a reminder:

You are not defined by what happened to you.

And you have the power to decide where you go from here.