Trauma Recovery Expert Tracy Releases Groundbreaking Memoir on Breaking Generational Cycles
- Dec 9, 2025
- 3 min read
Rhode Island – Tracy, a Registered Nurse with over 20 years of healthcare experience, Reiki Master Teacher, and Certified Trauma Coach, announces the release of her deeply personal memoir, "Broken Little Girl: How One Woman Shattered the Cycle of Inherited Pain," the first in a three-book series addressing trauma recovery through the lens of nervous system regulation and polyvagal theory.
Drawing from her two decades of nursing experience across rehabilitation, psychiatric care, geriatrics, and hospice, combined with her expertise as a Reiki Master Teacher and trauma-informed coach, Tracy offers readers an unflinching look at how trauma patterns pass through generations–and how they can finally be broken.
"Broken Little Girl" traces Tracy's journey from a childhood marked by control and criticism, through a marriage that mirrored those same toxic patterns, to her eventual liberation and healing. What sets this memoir apart is its dual focus: the raw, honest storytelling of lived experience paired with practical insights into how trauma embeds itself in the body and nervous system.
"I spent years convinced that if I just left my toxic relationship, all the pain would disappear," Tracy explains. "What I discovered was that healing required understanding how my body kept score of everything–my father's rage, my mother's exhaustion, years of making myself small to survive.” This book is for anyone who thought escape would equal instant healing, only to discover the real work was just beginning."
The memoir illuminates a critical truth often missing from trauma recovery conversations: that abusive relationships don't happen in isolation. Tracy maps the generational patterns that prepared her to accept mistreatment, examining how her parents' unhealed wounds became her inheritance, and how she nearly passed the same legacy to her own children.
As an Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine, Tracy is building on themes she explores in her ongoing article series covering nervous system regulation, somatic healing practices, and breaking generational trauma patterns. "Broken Little Girl" takes these concepts deeper, offering readers both validation and actionable pathways forward.
The book tackles difficult questions rarely addressed in traditional self-help literature: What happens when forgiveness feels impossible? How do you parent while still healing? Can you recognize abuse when it's all you've ever known? How do physical symptoms manifest from chronic psychological stress?
Tracy's unique background allows her to bridge clinical understanding with lived experience. Her years working in psychiatric care inform her analysis of manipulation and gaslighting, while her hospice experience shaped her perspective on what truly matters at life's end–lessons that catalyzed her own decision to leave.
"This book isn't about achieving perfection or reaching some mythical 'healed' state," Tracy notes. "It's about the messy, nonlinear reality of recovery. It's about learning to distinguish between past danger and present safety when your nervous system can't tell the difference. It's about giving yourself permission to heal at your own pace."
"Broken Little Girl" is now available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle formats. It is the first volume in Tracy's series, followed by "The Ladder Out: Excavating The Self After trauma" and the companion workbook "Excavating the Self: A Workbook."
About Tracy
Tracy is a Registered Nurse, Reiki Master Teacher, and Certified Trauma Coach with over 20 years of healthcare experience. She serves as an Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine and operates Integrative Coaching, where she offers courses on trauma-informed parenting, finding yourself after trauma, recognizing manipulation, and supporting survivors through recovery. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and four children. Tracy is passionate about helping others break generational trauma patterns through nervous system healing and somatic practices.
Media contact
Tracy Ann Messore
401-359-3830
