Still here

love, and return. Raised in a stable, loving family, Annies childhood is fractured by abuse that reshapes her relationship with her body, trust, and the world itself. What follows is a life marked by addiction, violence, psychiatric incarceration, loss, and repeated brushes with death-balanced against moments of fierce love, motherhood, and fragile hope. Written with restraint, clarity, and emotional honesty, Still Here does not sensationalise trauma or offer easy redemption. Instead, it traces the long, uneven road of survival and the quiet courage required to keep living when life repeatedly breaks you. This is a story about endurance. About the inheritance of pain and the possibility of peace. About returning-at last-to the place where safety once began.

Pages: 71, Paperback, Independently published