My Teenage Experience (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798290342801)

My Teenage Experience is a raw and honest poetry collection that captures the highs and lows of growing up. Through love and heartbreak, joy and depression, calm and anxiety, these poems explore what it truly feels like to be a teenager.

Written over the course of four transformative years, from age 16 to 19, this collection reflects a growing mind, shifting emotions, and the struggle to find meaning in the chaos. Many pieces are drawn from my own life, while others come from listening deeply to those around me.

You'll find vulnerable reflections on mental illness, eating disorders, sexuality struggles, and sexual assault, topics that are too often silenced, especially in youth. These poems are laid out chronologically, showing the evolution of thought, pain, and healing over time. These topics are difficult to read about so reader discretion is advised.

As teens, we're often told we're "too young to understand," but I believe our emotions are valid and real. I wrote this book to remind you: I see you. I hear you. And even in your darkest moments, there is still hope for light, for love, and for peace.