The Watchtower: Breaking the Cycle

Description

I wasn’t raised—I was conditioned. Taught to scan rooms. To read moods. To stay quiet. To stay safe. I learned early that danger didn’t always come with warning signs. Sometimes it smiled. Sometimes, it looked just like me. Sometimes, it lived inside my own home. In this raw and unflinching memoir, Brielle Alexander tells the story of a girl forced to become her own protector long before she understood the weight of that role. She experienced early betrayal from someone she was told to trust. She learned the unspoken rules of survival in a home fractured by addiction, secrets, and emotional neglect. Yet, amidst the trauma, this is also a story of awakening. Of speaking the unspeakable. Of breaking cycles no one else would name. Of becoming someone no one had ever modeled: safe. Told with sharp insight and haunting honesty, The Watchtower is a declaration — for anyone who was left to figure it out alone — that your voice was never the problem. And your silence was never consent.