Growing Pains

About the Book

Say an official goodbye to your old way of living and fall heart first into a life healed. Growing Pains is a collection of poems and journal entries of a young woman’s journey through her self discovery. A transformation is depicted from a girl that wants to break out of the cycles her choices have created to a woman that is free to live exactly how she wants to. In these pages it deep dives into the heartbreaks of losing loved ones from healing, loving while healing, and learning to love oneself through healing. Growing Pains is an accurate account of what is often dealt with when trying to rediscover who you are without the trauma attached. Self discovery is always portrayed as this beautiful experience of simply moving away from pain. As if trouble cannot be found once the decision has been made to better oneself. In these pages, it uncovers the reality of how difficult changing one’s thought process towards themselves, and therefore others, can truly be. An authentic viewpoint is provided to close the gap between everyone who has dedicated themselves to living a life more fulfilled.. Come along in this journey and relate to honest displays of emotion and understanding oneself.

About the Author

Overlooked, undervalued, and far from perfect. Alyssa Williams is a regular girl from Phoenix, Arizona who simply wanted to live a better life. Growing up as the chubby, black girl there was no room for her interests, looks, and personal thoughts, forcing her to fend for herself. Williams did not start off as a self-loving confident queen, but through God’s love and direction, God steered her exactly to where she needed to be despite trials and setbacks. When she decided to embark on the journey of personal development Williams had no idea that it meant healing, much less all of the positive and negative consequences of healing. She hopes to inspire women who did not think loving themselves was possible, relate to those who are growing in the midst of love, and teach love to those who do not know what it looks like. Mostly, Alyssa Williams is a woman that believes in God’s loving power to strengthen brokenness into confidence.