A Raw and Powerful Journey Through Love, Trauma, Survival, and Healing

What happens when a lifetime of emotional neglect teaches you to accept love in pieces? In Chasing Breadcrumbs, one woman courageously unpacks the heartbreak, trauma, longing, and survival that shaped her life through deeply personal poetry, reflections, letters, and memories written over nearly a decade. From childhood wounds and complicated family dynamics to abusive relationships, devastating loss, motherhood, mental health struggles, and the desperate search for genuine love, this memoir-in-verse offers an unfiltered look inside the emotional scars many carry silently. Raised on inconsistent affection and emotional abandonment, she spends years chasing “breadcrumbs” from the people she loves most, accepting fragments of attention while longing to feel truly seen, valued, and safe. As the story unfolds, readers witness the painful cycle of manipulation, toxic relationships, grief, self-destruction, and emotional survival that follows her from adolescence into adulthood. Yet woven throughout the heartbreak is resilience, vulnerability, humor, motherhood, friendship, healing, and hope. Through lyrical storytelling and brutally honest self-reflection, Chasing Breadcrumbs explores themes of emotional abuse, childhood trauma, toxic relationships, generational wounds, grief, self-worth, healing, and rediscovering personal identity after years of feeling lost. The writing is intimate, relatable, and emotionally charged, inviting readers to see pieces of themselves within its pages. More than a collection of poetry and personal stories, Chasing Breadcrumbs is a testament to survival and the difficult journey toward self-love. It is for anyone who has ever felt forgotten, manipulated, unloved, or emotionally exhausted from giving too much of themselves to others. It is a reminder that healing is possible, cycles can be broken, and no one deserves to survive on crumbs when they are worthy of the entire table. Heartbreaking, empowering, and deeply human, Chasing Breadcrumbs will resonate with readers long after the final page.

Rebecca Marriott is the author of Chasing Breadcrumbs, a deeply personal memoir-in-verse inspired by her lived experiences with love, loss, trauma, motherhood, emotional abuse, healing, and self-discovery. Through raw poetry, reflective storytelling, and intimate personal essays, she explores the emotional impact of childhood neglect, toxic relationships, grief, and the lifelong search for genuine connection and self-worth. Rebecca’s honest and vulnerable writing resonates with readers who have struggled to heal from difficult relationships while learning to rediscover themselves. With Chasing Breadcrumbs, she offers not only her story, but a reminder that even after heartbreak and pain, healing and hope are still possible.