Mirrors Are Better Broken: A Girl and A System

By xanthea moore

EDIT 1/7/2026 THIS BOOK IS XANTHEAS FIRST THERAPY ASSIGNMENT. THERE WILL BE GRAMMER ERRORS AND SENTENCES THAT DONT MAKE SENSE.

Have you ever looked around you, looked in the mirror and examined yourself and wondered; why am I like this? Why am I different?
I know there are a lot of people out there who could convince you that there is nothing wrong with you. They want you to stop feeling weird, to be happy and to love yourself. Trust me, they mean well.
However, the unpopular truth is that, if you ever feel that there is something wrong with you, it's probably because there is. Trust your intuition, speaking through your thoughts and feelings when it tells you that something is wrong.
Your next step should be to find out what that is, why and find a way to heal yourself.
How do I know this?
I have tried to live a normal adult life, by the book according to societal standards. I work, I ensure my child gets an education, food and shelter, and I socialize and laugh with my peers.
But something was wrong with me, and it showed in the way I did things. But just like you, I had good enough reasons to justify what I did and why.
But, ghosts from my past were haunting me. I just didn't know it for sure until I was thrown in jail and had my child taken away from me. That's when I became consciously aware that there was a problem.
I began to look into my life, into my past and into the struggles of the inner child within me. She was still hurting and still traumatized from an extremely rough childhood of abuse. And here I was putting up the 'I grew up, I am successful and I moved on act'.
In this book, I talk about my past; my childhood and the traumatizing events that defined it, and how those events have affected my life, my choices and my actions today.
Maybe you have gone through some bad experiences in your life. When we get past them, we want to forget, move on and build this perfect life to make ourselves and maybe others forget what happened to us. You know the 'put it behind you notion.'
But the truth is whatever happened to you, will leave life-long imprints. You can never outgrow the influence these things can have in your life no matter how high you climb or how far you run.
Running, ignoring and trying to 'put it behind me' is like dressing up a wound in a beautiful cloth and assuming it's healed. You have to bare the wounds, to treat and heal them.
This is me opening up my wounds.
I am sharing my story for my healing, I am penning down my journey in this book so that I can show you, someone out there, that no matter how hard it gets, you can always overcome. But not by running, ignoring, or assuming you are fine.
You have to face it. You have to understand exactly what happened to you, how it shaped your beliefs and perspectives, and figure out what to do about it now.
You can pick yourself up, heal yourself and overcome trauma, but you have to be willing to admit your brokenness so that you can know how to fix your pieces.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09BY3WL87
• ISBN13: 9798450740713
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"