You're not broken. You're built different. If you've spent your life wondering why everything feels harder for you than it seems to for everyone else - this book was written for you. You're Not Broken, You're Built Different is a raw, honest memoir that takes you inside one woman's story of surviving childhood chaos, domestic violence, addiction, and trauma - and comes out the other side not with a polished recovery story, but with something more valuable: understanding. Because nobody ever explained you to yourself. Nobody told you why you react the way you do. Why you choose who you choose. Why you stay when you should leave, or leave when you should stay. Why you numb, avoid, overgive, or explode. Why the things that should have broken you - didn't. This book does that. Using real lived experience alongside what we now know about trauma, the brain, and survival, each chapter unpacks the behaviours and patterns that form when life doesn't feel safe - and gently, honestly, asks you to get curious about your own. This is not a self-help book that tells you to journal your feelings and meditate. This is someone who has been through it, sitting across from you, finally saying the things nobody said to them. For the person who has always felt too much, or not enough. For the one carrying weight nobody can see. For the one who wonders if they will ever feel okay. Maybe you're not broken at all. Maybe you were just being built.