Essay

✨ I Wasn’t Trying to Write a Book. I Was Trying to Save My Life.

How rebuilding myself in secret turned into the book I never planned to write.

Chelsea M. Thacker · December 29, 2025

How rebuilding myself in secret turned into the book I never planned to write.

This earlier essay is still published on Medium. This page holds its place in Living Terrain, where it connects to the rest of the work.

The investigation continues on Substack.