You saw the signs — and silenced them. Until they started screaming.

I Knew Before I Knew is a deeply personal, genre-blurring account of emotional entrapment, self-erasure, and the long journey back to self-trust. Told through raw, poetic vignettes, Mira Ellison's debut explores what it means to stay — and what it means to leave — when you know the truth, but life has made you doubt your own voice.

With uncommon tenderness and unflinching clarity, Ellison unpacks the quiet moments that often go unnoticed: the weight of compromise, the cost of denial, the flickers of intuition, and the complexity of staying too long in something that doesn't feel quite right.

This limited first digital edition offers gentle witness for anyone reclaiming themselves after confusion, coercion, or quiet control — without shame, without pressure.

For readers of Chanel Miller, Glennon Doyle, or Carmen Maria Machado, I Knew Before I Knew is not a guidebook. It's a mirror. And sometimes, that's what healing starts with.