I Want This For You: The Book That Started Everything
There are moments in life when something inside you screams: It’s time.
Not time to be perfect. Not time to have it all figured out.
Just time to be honest.
I Want This For You was born in one of those moments.
This book didn’t start as a project. It started as a release, through journaling; FOUR years of journaling to be exact. It was a way for me to exhale after years of carrying stories, survival, shedding and healing. It was never meant to be polished or performative. It was meant to be real. It was meant to hold space. It was meant to say the things I once wished someone had said to me, when I need it most.
Then I realized, maybe someone else needed to hear all these things too. I wanted to show anyone, …everyone …that a soft life was (is) accessible. The stories inside are from my own lived experiences – so I know what the heck I’m talking about.
This book holds pieces of my journey with anxiety, trauma, reparenting, boundaries, self-compassion, and learning how to feel safe in my own body and life. It speaks about the parts of healing that aren’t glamorous. The parts that feel messy, circular, quiet, and slow. The parts that don’t always make sense but still matter.
The title I Want This For You came from a place of deep love.
Because when you’ve walked through darkness, you don’t want others to suffer silently.
You want them to know gentleness is possible.
You want them to know safety can be rebuilt.
You want them to know they’re allowed to choose themselves.
You want them to have a soft life.
Listen, you are allowed to soften.
Your story doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s to be worthy.
Starting this author section of my blog with this book feels right.
Because everything I write now is rooted in the same truth that birthed it:
Healing is creative.
Creativity is healing.
And both are my truth.
This space will be where I share my author journey honestly. The doubts, the magic, the edits, the vulnerability, and the quiet moments where words change me before they ever reach anyone else.
If you’ve read I Want This For You, thank you for holding it with care.
If you haven’t yet, know that it was written for the part of you that is trying, even on the days it feels invisible.
I want softness for you.
