Crumbled Not Broken: Embracing the Mess in Healing and Baking

Crumbled Not Broken: Embracing the Mess in Healing and Baking is a collection of poems and cookie recipes that celebrate the growth, acceptance, heartbreak and healing that comes with honoring all parts of ourselves we once felt were broken.

Created by mental health advocate and entrepreneur, Dayna Altman of Bake it Till You Make it LLC, Crumbled Not Broken covers topics of personal battles with depression, an eating disorder, living with OCD, emetophobia, surviving sexual violence, among others.

The poems in this book honor both the beautiful and the messy parts of mental health recovery as well as the journey to find one's voice in a world that so often leaves us quiet.All poems have been illustrated by members of the Bake it Till You Make it community.