SILENCED... - Sarah K Sturgill

*Content Warning*

This book contains discussions of sexual assault, grooming, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempt, domestic violence, emotional abuse, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and death. Reader discretion is advised.

Book Description

From the outside, Alexis looks like she has done everything right.

She graduates near the top of her class. She earns a college degree. She becomes a teacher. She finds people who love her. She builds the kind of life she always thought she wanted.

But beneath the surface, Alexis is falling apart.

For years, she carries the weight of trauma, grief, self-doubt, and silence. From the pain of middle school bullying and sexual assault to toxic relationships, family struggles, self-harm, and the crushing pressure of trying to hold everything together, Alexis spends most of her life surviving.

Told with brutal honesty and emotional depth, this memoir follows Alexis from childhood through adulthood as she navigates friendship, first love, softball, teaching, loss, and the invisible wounds that never fully heal.

At its core, this is a story about what it means to survive when no one realizes how much you are hurting.

It is a story for anyone who has ever felt too broken, too emotional, too difficult, or too far gone.

And it is a story that asks one heartbreaking question:

What happens when the person everyone depends on can no longer save herself?