The Pain We Carry

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Pain We Carry is a raw and unflinching memoir of survival abandonment state violence and the long road home to oneself. Kristen Nicole Powell takes readers into the heart of her childhood-through addiction domestic violence foster care juvenile justice incarceration and the aching hunger to be loved. From running away at twelve to facing 25-to-life as a teen she writes with unfiltered honesty about trauma shame generational wounds and the cost of resilience.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But this is also a story of reclamation-of a girl who refused to stay silent a young mother who chose life through the darkest nights and a woman who now stands as an advocate leader and healer for youth impacted by systems. The Pain We Carry is more than a memoir. It is testimony. It is survival. It is a hand reaching back for every person who has ever felt unseen unsafe or unworthy-reminding them that healing is possible and that their voice matters.</span></p>