Through My Eyes

Some children grow up.

Others learn how to survive.

This memoir is not a story of perfection or pity-it is a testimony of resilience, truth, and becoming. From early childhood marked by instability, abuse, and constant uprooting, to adolescence shaped by loss, betrayal, and forced independence, Ania Artagos tells her story with unfiltered honesty and emotional depth.

Through moving cities, broken homes, homelessness, violence, and silence, she learned how to read people, adapt quickly, and protect herself in a world that rarely felt safe. School hal'lways, family fractures, public trauma, and private pain became classrooms-teaching lessons no textbook ever could.

But this is not just a story about what happened to her.

It is about what didn't break her.

As a young woman, Ania turned pain into purpose-founding a nonprofit, learning financial literacy on her own, advocating for others, and continuing to build even when life offered no stability. Pregnancy, homelessness, and emotional isolation tested her in ways she never imagined, yet motherhood became the anchor that changed everything.

This book is for:

• Survivors who had to grow up too fast
• Women healing from childhood trauma
• Single mothers finding strength in uncertainty
• Anyone learning how to rebuild after life falls apart

Written with vulnerability, strength, and reflection, this memoir reminds readers that chaos is not the end of the story-it is often the training ground for transformation.

This is the storm before the calm.

And the rise is next.