The memoir
Built on Trauma
A Story of Survival, Healing, and Breaking Cycles
About the book
What happens when survival becomes the foundation of your identity?
In Built on Trauma, Shae Love shares a raw and deeply personal memoir about growing up surrounded by addiction, mental illness, violence, foster care, separation, and adoption.
Her story does not end with what happened to her. It follows the long, uneven work of understanding trauma, becoming a mother, and choosing to break the cycles she inherited.
This is a memoir for survivors, former foster youth, adoptees, caregivers, advocates, and anyone learning that healing does not require erasing the past.
From the heart of the story
“I am built on trauma, but my trauma does not define me.”