Trigger Warning//Anorexia story Book 1 of the Loving Yourself Hurts series. Lyra is 15 and she feels alone. She has a few friends, but she just wants to be loved. She wants someone to hold her hand when she needs it. Someone who will let her cry on their shoulder. But she's not good enough. No one likes her like that because she's flawed. That's why she has to be perfect. She has to be skinnier. Completed: 2018 Edited: 2023

When June, a flesh-and-blood illustration of depression, ultimately decides to quit breathing, she settles on drowning herself in a lake. However, with an extraordinary twist of fate, she is resurrected by a boy named Forrest. Captivating, kind, and honest, he offers her the things she's been deprived of the most. As time comes and goes, June begins to understand that she - after long years of doubt - is worthy of life. She begins to see that sometimes, what seems to be the end may be just the beginning.

in which a girl hears what society says and tries to meet society's expectations