A Poetry and Letter Collection
It Soon Come: Poems and Letters on Becoming Enough is the book for the woman who's ready to hear her voice again.
Somewhere between who you were told to be and who you are, your voice went quiet.
This chapter of your life is not your ending – it’s your changing season.
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This chapter of your life is not your ending – it’s your changing season. 〰️
You'll recognize yourself in these pages if —
Who Is This For
Beloved,
you're the friend everyone calls first, the daughter who never worried anyone, the one who shows up steady while quietly running on empty. You've forgotten what it feels like to be held instead of holding.
— inside is a message for you
Beloved,
you edit your voice before it leaves your mouth. You've spent years making yourself smaller, softer, easier to swallow — for a job, a family, a room that was never built for your whole self.
— inside is a message for you
Beloved,
a loss, a launch, a leaving, a becoming — something in your life just ended or just began, and you're standing in that in-between place, wanting words for what you can't yet explain.
— inside is a message for you
What This Book Gives You
Not a self-help book. A companion for the road back to yourself.
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Poems and letters that name the ache before they offer the healing — so you feel understood before you're asked to move on.
Words for the silence you inherited, the roles you outgrew, and the self you're still becoming — so you can finally name it.
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Permission to feel it, fully
A rooted, ancestral kind of strength
Writing that draws on lineage and endurance, turning what came before you into fuel for what's next.
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Language for what you've never said out loud
Your own practice of writing back
Reflection space built into the book — not just something to read, but something to write yourself into.
About the Author
After 26 years in the classroom, Ann-Marie retired from teaching to build something she couldn't teach from a lesson plan: a body of work that helps women and youth who've silenced themselves for others find their way back to their own voice.
NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED TEACHER
ARTS INTEGRATION MASTER TEACHER
PODCASTER
"I help women and youth who've silenced themselves for others rediscover who they are — through guided journaling, letters to their younger selves, and spoken word."
CREATIVE COACH
AUTHOR
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The book is a starting point. The work goes deeper.
If these pages moved something in you, there's more waiting on the other side — guided writing, spoken word, and space to keep becoming, together.
Guided Journaling & Letters
Write your own letters to your younger self, in community with others doing the same.
Spoken Word Coaching
For the writer ready to take the page to her feet and say it out loud.
Workshop & Book Study
Group experiences built around the book's themes — healing, voice, and becoming.
Hear More About The Story
About This Life
Real Stories. Honest Conversations.
Real stories. Honest conversations. The messy, meaningful moments that shape who we become.
About This Life podcast is where people share their transformational stories through life’s difficult moments, offering hope, perspective, and a reminder that none of us are becoming alone. The show includes vulnerable conversations, following a transformation.
A Preview From The Book
7 Questions That Can Change Your Next Chapter
Every letter in this book began with a question Ann-Marie was afraid to answer honestly. Start with the first one below — it's yours, free.
Free Reflection Guide
“What version of you did you silence to keep everyone else comfortable?
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Whose voice do you still hear when you doubt yourself — and whose voice do you want to hear instead?
Get this question expanded into a full guided reflection - with space to write, a short letter-writing prompt, and one page straight from the book - sent to your inbox.
What would you tell the woman you were the year everything fell apart?
Questions 2–7 are woven through the full book, alongside the letters and poems that grew out of each one.
It Soon Come: Poems and Letters on Becoming Enough
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