Surviving in shards. Sprinkling glitter on every wound.

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About
the Book

Glitterbombing My Existence is a memoir made of fragments. Essays, confessions, and 2 a.m. thoughts. It's not a guide. It's not a recovery arc.

It's just me, glitterbombing my life to see if I can make it hurt less, or maybe catch more light.

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  • We don’t owe anyone a redemption arc. Not our abusers. Not the world. Not even ourselves.

  • You can either die pretending your sadness is beautiful, or live.

  • All this time I could’ve tried to be happy. But instead, I just tried to be slightly less depressed, because I thought that was more noble.

  • Reducing someone to a type, a role, a function, an image, a façade is not harmless. It’s emotional laziness pretending to be insight.

  • I don’t want my affection to be measured by how much of myself I can give up.

  • Life is a battlefield, and we realized—mid-fight—that we left our guns at home. And we burned that home down, because it tried to kill us.

  • The significance of our existence shouldn’t be something we have to earn by constantly proving ourselves to the world. It should be something we’re born with.

  • Not every memory has to be understood by someone else. Not every feeling needs to be validated or translated into words.

  • Sometimes, one shard of light is enough to remind you there’s more than the dark.

My Top Picks

The “Aesthetic” Pain

A chapter that shatters the romanticized image of depression and shows the messy, unglamorous work of actually trying to heal.

Let’s Be Friends,
Not Pseudo-Therapists

A brutally honest exploration of friendship, boundaries, and emotional labor. This chapter redefines care, not as fixing or saving, but as holding space without losing yourself.

What Doesn’t Kill You
Breaks You

A searing rejection of toxic resilience culture, this chapter affirms that survival doesn’t have to be transformative. Existing should be enough.

I Don’t Know You,
But I Miss You

An intimate reflection on longing, emotional healing, and learning what real love feels like after years of only knowing distorted versions of it.

Life Is a Battlefield, and
I Forgot My Gun at Home

An unflinching exploration of surviving trauma without tools, healing without guidance, and finding quiet resilience in a world that never gave you a fair start.

A Guide to
Creating a Life Catcher

A tender, honest guide to collecting fleeting moments of light amid mental darkness, choosing to remember what’s still good, even when nothing feels okay.

About
the Author

Soohyun is a Korean Writer based in Germany. She studied East Asian Studies in the hopes of finding herself and has been quietly writing poems and essays ever since. Glitterbombing My Existence is her first full manuscript, written between languages, time zones, and unfinished sandwiches.

She writes for anyone who feels too broken for this world but keeps going anyway.

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