I am not a traditional writer. I am dyslexic, and writing has never come easily to me. My work explores trauma, identity, queerness, and the long-term effects of emotional abuse and systemic failure. From Hurt to Whole is my debut memoir—an unflinching account of survival, self-examination, and rebuilding life on my own terms.

This is not a story about neatly overcoming trauma. It is about meeting it head-on and learning to live with its consequences. It is an honest, raw account of lived experience.

From Hurt to Whole examines growing up queer in environments that misunderstood or punished difference—at home, at school, and within systems meant to provide care and protection. It confronts emotional abuse, bullying, and the learned discipline of silence, as well as the lasting damage caused by being labelled rather than truly understood.

With clarity and restraint, I explore how early experiences shape identity and adulthood, how vigilance becomes a way of life, and how healing does not come from erasing the past, but from reclaiming authorship of the self. What began as journalling to make sense of my present became a deliberate act of remembering—reaching back to my earliest memories at five or six years old.

Direct, unsentimental, and deeply human, this book speaks to anyone who endured a difficult beginning and chose to shape what came next. It took me more than thirty years to understand how profoundly my childhood shaped my adulthood—and this book is the result of finally seeing that clearly.

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