Picking up the Pieces my parents left behind is a raw poetry collection about surviving a childhood without feeling loved, trying to earn that love but never quite getting it while always hoping that "Maybe one day she will love me" -- and learning how to heal as an adult.

These poems trace the quiet devastation of growing up with a gambling mother, being bullied at school, and spending years trying to earn love. They speak to the ache of having no safe place, the loneliness, heartache and pain leading to antidepressants , and the grief that comes from leaving parents behind when it has gone too far.

This is a book for anyone who:

• grew up in a house that never felt like home

• learned to perform for love

• was bullied into shrinking

• carries childhood in their body

• grieves parents who are still alive

• is trying to heal from things that never should have happened

Written from the perspective of a woman looking back at her childhood while putting herself back together. This book gives voice to the little girl who wasn't protected -- and the adult who refused to stay broken.

These poems don't offer easy answers.

They offer truth.

They speak for daughters of addiction.

For children who grew up too fast.

For adults learning how to reparent themselves.

For anyone who had to leave in order to survive.

This collection is a reminder that not all mothers were meant to be mothers -- and that healing doesn't mean forgetting.

It means finally choosing yourself.

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• Publication Date: February 11, 2026
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• Print Length: 100 Pages
• File Size: 457 KB