“Me and Dahmer had the same childhood. But I chose to heal.” What do you do with a life shaped by chaos, shame, and silence? You reclaim it. You alchemize it. You feed the fire. In this bold, laugh-through-the-tears book, Libbey Pelaia-Krumhansl – health practitioner and lived-experience firestarter – offers a new lens for healing. Part memoir, part movement, Born Into the Fire explores how trauma lives in the body, how systems gaslight our pain, and how we rise – through science, spirit, and lived experience. This isn’t about overcoming. It’s about becoming. If you’re a survivor, an empath, or a soul tired of feeling like a walking coping mechanism – this is your permission slip to stop shrinking and start healing. Because if the collective burned at their brightest – could you even imagine the darkness that would be extinguished