✨ Once Upon a Time, I Survived Myself (and Then I Wrote About It) ✨
an update, a love letter, and a soft little scream from the girl who made it.
Hi. It’s me. Rylin. The girl who cries, heals, podcasts, spirals, survives, overthinks, and just published her first freaking book.
Yeah. That part.
I WROTE A BOOK. And it will be out in the world july 1st on amazon and july 2nd on barnes and noble.
And not just any book—it’s a memoir-meets-healing guide-meets-fairytale-gone-rogue called
Once Upon a Time, I Survived Myself.
Even the title makes me emotional.
💌 Let’s catch up.
If you’ve been here for a while, you’ve probably seen pieces of me falling apart and trying to rebuild in real time. The chronic illness journey. The heartbreaks. The girlhood wounds. The eating disorder recovery. The way-too-young-for-this chaos. The tender rage. The soft comebacks.
You’ve seen the spirals.
The voice memo breakdowns.
The healing girl rants.
The me trying to be a grown-up and a glitter fairy at the same time.
And maybe somewhere in there, you saw yourself, too.
📖 So why a book?
Because some stories can’t just live in captions or reels.
Some stories deserve chapters.
Deserve space.
Deserve a beginning, a middle, a “what now?”
I wrote this book for the girl I used to be.
For the girl who didn’t think she’d make it out.
For the girl who was always “too much,” “too sensitive,” “too sick,” “too emotional,”
and somehow—never enough.
I wrote it for the girl who stayed.
Who survived.
Who turned heartbreak into holy fire.
🧠 What’s in it?
✨ Chronic illness
✨ Healing through chaos
✨ Body image and eating disorder recovery
✨ Love that broke me
✨ Love that built me
✨ Mental health spirals
✨ Fairytales I had to write for myself
✨ And a reminder that you’re not alone. Ever.
It’s poetic. It’s personal. It’s radically soft.
It’s what I needed.
It might be what you need, too.
💖 What’s next?
I’m growing. I’m still healing.
But I’m also dreaming big.
Building my podcast, Take Care of Your Body by Ry (it’s global now—what???),
creating content I love, and trying to stay grounded through the whirlwind of it all.
Some days I’m crying on the floor.
Some days I’m getting ready for book signings.
Some days it’s both.
But this is my reminder to you (and myself):
You are allowed to evolve. You’re allowed to outgrow who you were.
And you’re allowed to be proud of how far you’ve come—even if you’re still figuring it out.
🛍️ Buy the Book
If you’ve ever felt like the “too much” girl,
the “sick” girl,
the “why does everything hit me so hard?” girl—
this book is for you.
🧚♀️ [Once Upon a Time, I Survived Myself –
And if you love it, please share. Tag me. Cry with me. Tell your mom. Leave a review.
Every single one means the world.
🌸 Final Words
To every girl who’s ever questioned if her softness was a weakness—
To every girl who’s ever begged the universe to just give her a sign—
To every girl who’s still healing, still hurting, still hoping—
This is your sign.
This is your permission.
This is your story now.
You’re not too much.
You’re not too late.
You’re just getting started.
With love and glitter,
Rylin Rose
🎙️
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Take Care of Your Body by Ry
Your safe space for wellness, healing, mental health & messy magic
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