{"product_id":"carrying-what-wasnt-mine-love-loss-and-what-i-chose-to-keep-9781971999487","title":"Carrying What Wasn't Mine: Love, Loss, and What I Chose to Keep","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor most of her life, Camerie Porter believed strength meant silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe learned early how to survive disappointment, emotional absence, grief, and the quiet weight of expectations she never chose to carry. Raised by a hardworking single mother and shaped by the inconsistency of an absent father, Camerie spent years shrinking her needs, hiding her pain, and convincing herself that survival was enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when devastating loss, depression, bitterness, and self-destruction threatened to consume her, she was forced to confront the truth: surviving is not the same as living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Carrying What Wasn't Mine, Camerie shares a deeply personal journey through grief, generational silence, emotional healing, motherhood, self-worth, and rediscovering her voice. With raw honesty and reflection, she explores what it means to release inherited pain, rebuild identity after heartbreak, and choose healing even when the process feels uncomfortable and uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis memoir is for anyone who has ever: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFelt emotionally unseen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarried responsibilities that were never theirs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMistaken independence for healing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStruggled with grief, abandonment, or self-worth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLonged to feel chosen, safe, and enough\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than a story about pain, this is a story about becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story about learning that you do not have to keep carrying what was never yours to begin with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bookbutler Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781971999487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Camerie Porter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52734001512629,"sku":"9781971999487","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/carrying-what-wasnt-mine-love-loss-and-what-i-chose-to-keep-9781971999487","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}