What I Carried Through the Fire is a raw debut collection of poetry chronicling one woman’s journey through love, and self-discovery. In these pages, you will find the quiet moments of devastation and resilience— the untold stories, the scars that speak, and the embers of a life rebuilt from ruin. Through fragmented memories, tender truths, and bold reclamation, this collection explores what it means to walk through emotional fire and emerge— changed, scarred, but still standing. These poems do not shy away from the dark; they speak to abuse and unraveling, to grief that lingers in the body, and to the aching beauty of survival, but they also offer light— glimpses of love, of hope, of a voice finding its power again. For anyone learning to live again after heartbreak, trauma, or silence, What I Carried Through the Fire is a witness and a companion— a testament to the fact that healing isn’t linear, survival isn’t always loud, and strength often looks like simply choosing to stay.