A memoir about the courage it takes to finally tell the truth.
Content note: This memoir addresses childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, and religious abuse. Reader discretion is advised.
There’s a particular kind of silence that lives in a body — the kind you learn as a child and carry, without realizing it, into every room you walk into as an adult. Unfiltered Love is the story of that silence, and of the long, unsteady walk toward finally breaking it.
This is my story. I grew up learning to function while quietly unraveling — to smile with my mouth while holding my breath inside. I carried secrets I didn’t have language for, and those secrets steered my life long before I understood they were even there. By the time I thought I’d found safety, I had actually walked into a cage disguised as a home, in a place where Scripture got twisted into a weapon and love got confused with obedience.
Unfiltered Love traces that journey across twenty-four chapters — from the earliest silence, through survival that never quite felt like safety, into the slow, hard-won work of reparenting the wounded parts of myself, and finally into a faith without fear and a love that’s actually mine. It’s not a tidy redemption story. It’s an honest one.
Why I wrote it unfiltered I didn’t write this book to shock anyone. I wrote it because holding all of it in cost me more than telling the truth ever could. If you’ve ever smiled through something you should have screamed about, if you’ve ever confused faith with fear or love with obedience, I think you’ll recognize yourself somewhere in these pages.
This book is for the woman who learned to whisper when she wanted to scream — and is finally ready to find her voice.
What’s inside
• A raw, chapter-by-chapter account of childhood trauma, a relationship that became another kind of danger, and the slow rebuilding of a self
• An honest exploration of faith — the way it was used against me, and the way I eventually reclaimed it as refuge instead of fear
• A path toward healing that doesn’t skip the hard parts, because the hard parts are where the truth lives
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If this story speaks to you, I’d be so grateful if you shared it with someone who needs to hear it too. Healing gets easier when we stop doing it in silence.
With truth and tenderness,
Michelle