Carrying Her Light

What do you do when survival becomes second nature-and healing feels impossible?In Carrying Her Light, Veronica Hazel Rogers shares a deeply personal and courageous memoir of motherhood, trauma, addiction, grief, faith, and recovery. Becoming a mother at seventeen, loving a child through addiction, and ultimately losing her firstborn daughter, Veronica invites readers into the quiet, unspoken realities many families live with but rarely talk about.This is not a story about perfection.It is a story about persistence.With raw honesty and compassion, Veronica explores the complexities of early motherhood, blended families, loving someone you cannot save, and learning to live again after unimaginable loss. She reflects on sobriety as an act of love, faith as a source of strength, and boundaries as a form of care-not abandonment.More than a memoir, Carrying Her Light is a companion for anyone who has:Loved someone struggling with addictionLived through grief that has no timelineFaced the weight of generational traumaNeeded permission to keep living after lossThrough reflection, resilience, and hard-earned wisdom, this book offers hope without denial and healing without pretending the scars disappear.If you are walking through grief, recovery, or the long road back to yourself-this book is for you.