"The evidence was always there. I just had to become it."

This memoir begins with a six-year-old girl reciting her ABCs on a porch to prove she was ready for a world that wasn't ready for her. Navigating the realities of housing instability and the quiet emergence of survival, the story explores the journey of an exceptionally bright child whose nervous system was already learning to bury hurt and hide uncertainty.

Proof of Me is told from a healing perspective and goes beyond early traumatic experiences to explore the long journey toward taking full ownership of our outcomes.

It delves into how we often conceal the painful aspects of life to find our strength, how we eventually uncover our true selves beneath the protective shells we build to stay safe, and the powerful choices that remain.