Rosie's Diary

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO PROMISED FOREVER LOVE ARE THE ONES WHO BREAK IT FIRST?“Write your life like a novel,” Dr. Crowne tells me.My life is messy enough to fill shelves… but relive the past eighteen years?I didn’t plan on going back to therapy. I definitely didn’t plan on digging through everything I’ve spent years trying to forget. But now I’m sitting here with a blank notebook, a guarded heart, and nowhere left to hide. So I start writing—memory by memory, the story I avoided for so long begins to unfold.What do you do when your family falls apart because of someone else’s choices—and you’re left to carry the pieces? When the people who were supposed to love you the most are the ones who hurt you the deepest?After a traumatic event tears my family apart, I am left trying to live with a heart still in pieces—holding together a life that no longer feels whole.High school was supposed to be easier than survival. I was wrong.Relationships shift. Girls can be cruel. Boys are complicated—and for the first time, love starts to feel real in the middle of everything falling apart. Just when I think I understand my life, something begins to change—like a reality I can almost reach but don’t fully understand yet.And I can’t stop asking myself if all of this—the breaking, the healing, and everything in between—has been leading me somewhere I never expected.What if God is real?Rosie’s Diary is a deeply emotional coming-of-age Christian novel about trauma, first love, forgiveness, identity, and learning to trust God when your own story feels impossible to face. Read more