From Emotional Thread Wall to For What You Bury

When I was writing #StyledForRevenge, I spent a lot of time thinking about emotions.

Not just what Sloane was doing.

What she was feeling.

Heartbreak.
Betrayal.
Grief.
Anger.
Rebuilding.
Triumph.

I found myself asking a simple question:

What music would help her survive this?

As I searched for answers, something unexpected happened.

I realized I wasn’t building a playlist.

I was uncovering an emotional thread.

A thread that ran through women across genres, generations, backgrounds, and decades.

The songs were different.

The artists were different.

But the feelings were the same.

A young woman finding her voice.
A woman rebuilding after betrayal.
A woman carrying grief.
A woman refusing to disappear.
A woman rising without permission.

The more I listened, the more I realized these artists were all speaking different dialects of the same emotional language.

That language became the original Emotional Thread Wall playlist.

But eventually I discovered there was more story left to tell.

Not just Sloane’s story.

Ours.

The emotions we carry.
The grief we bury.
The heartbreak we survive.
The strength we discover.
The sisterhood we find.

That is how Emotional Thread Wall became For What You Bury.

Not because the first playlist was incomplete.

But because there were more women whose voices belonged in the conversation.

More daughters of the moon.

If a sixteen-year-old girl and a seventy-year-old woman listen to these playlists, I hope they recognize something familiar in one another.

Resilience.

Strength.

Survival.

I hope they see a sister.

Because while the world often tells us that our differences define us, I believe there is something deeper that connects us.

We have all been hurt.
We have all been heartbroken.
We have all carried things we never asked to carry.

And still we rise.

That is the thread.

That is the story.

That is the music.

And that is the reason these playlists exist.

My hope is that when the final page ends and the final song fades, you leave with the same truth I discovered while writing this book:

You are powerful.

You are worth it.

And there is power in sisterhood.

More than anything else, I hope you find your people.

Your circle.

Your sisters.

Your coven.

The women connected to you by a common thread.

Whatever that thread may be.

Because none of us were meant to carry the weight of this world alone.