I'm Marcia Yateman.

I spent a long time being the strong one — carrying what wasn't mine to carry, holding everyone else together, and calling it love. The music started when I finally set some of it down. Somewhere in that quiet, songs came back to me the way they did when I was young, and I started writing them down instead of pushing them away.

Now I write about the things people don't usually say out loud: the relationships we outgrow, the grief we tiptoe around, the long walk back to trusting ourselves. I write books too — the kind I wish someone had handed me years ago.

I live with intention, I sing what I mean, and I believe the right words at the right moment can change a life. I know, because they changed mine.