Cracked Open: Raising Kids While Trying to Save Myself: A Raw Memoir of Postpartum Anxiety, Identity

Cracked Open: Raising Kids While Trying to Save Myself is a deeply personal, journal-style memoir that takes you inside the emotional world of a mother unraveling-and rebuilding-herself after birth.
From postpartum anxiety and identity loss to relationship strain and the desperate search for self, this book holds nothing back. It's not a how-to. It's a how-it-feels. Honest. Reflective. Raw.
Through intimate storytelling and quiet revelations, the author walks us through:

• Crying alone in the laundry room while pretending everything's fine
• Grieving her old life while holding her baby in love
• Rediscovering creativity, connection, and self-compassion
• Rebuilding her identity-not as who she was, but who she's becoming