About Carmen Lea
I wasn’t just buried. I was shattered.
Not metaphorically completely.
Into jagged pieces so small I didn’t believe they could ever be put back together.
I’m Carmen Lea, a woman who has walked through hell more than once… and still found her way back to herself.
I was a child of divorce, raised in a home shaped by addiction, emotional absence, and silence disguised as strength. I witnessed pain, endured trauma, and learned young that love came with conditions and that speaking up often made things worse.
We moved often. I was the quiet kid. The overlooked one. Bullied. Outcast.
I didn’t have real friends until high school, and by then, I had already learned to hate myself.
And my body? That became the battleground.
Overweight. Obese. Yo-yo dieting through decades of shame, guilt, emotional eating, and self-loathing.
Even when I smiled, I never felt seen.
Even when I healed I broke again.
My second marriage nearly took me out.
Gaslighting, betrayal, manipulation… it stripped away everything I had rebuilt including my trust in myself.
I’ve survived two divorces (five, if you count my parents’).
I’ve raised my daughters on my own.
And I’ve spent the last few years doing the hardest work of all—learning how to love myself.
Not the Instagram version.
Not the filtered, curated kind.
The gritty, ugly-cry, rock-bottom, baby-step kind.
The kind where you choose yourself in a whisper… and then again in a roar.
Today, I write. I speak. I show up for people like me.
People who’ve been shattered, silenced, and made to believe they’re not enough.
People who are ready to stop seeking outside validation and finally live from within.
If that’s you you’re not alone anymore.
This space was made for you.
And we’re just getting started.