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Growing up taught her many things: how to survive, how to stay quiet, how to carry pain with a smile. But no one taught her how to love herself. The Woman I'm Becoming is a deeply personal poem about healing from trauma, grieving the child you used to be, and learning that adulthood is not about having all the answers-it's about finding your way back to yourself. For every person who has ever mistaken self-sacrifice for love: This poem is for you.