EXCEPT ME
Some Families Break You.
This Book Is About Choosing Yourself Anyway.
A raw, honest memoir about growing up in a family shaped by addiction, learning to set boundaries without guilt, and choosing peace when love demands too much.
If you grew up learning to be:
The responsible one
The quiet one
The strong one
The one who “understood”
Except Me is for anyone who was taught to tolerate chaos, excuse harm,
and silence their own pain, simply to keep the family intact.
Loving people who refuse to change
Being guilted for protecting your peace
Ending cycles that others call “family loyalty”
Grieving someone who is still alive
Choosing boundaries even when they make you the villain
It’s about what happens when you finally say: “This stops with me.”
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Kellyn Rose writes with courage, vulnerability, and unfiltered honesty about family dynamics, addiction, and the invisible wounds carried by the ones who hold everything together.
Except Me is her story, but it echoes the lives of countless readers who have quietly carried similar pain and wondered
if choosing themselves was allowed.
This book is not written to accuse.
It is written to tell the truth.
You don’t owe access to people who harm you. You don’t have to explain your boundaries. You don’t have to stay small to keep the peace.
Get your copy of Except Me today
A story for anyone who chose healing,
even when it meant standing alone.
