About The Author
Sarah Seonarain grew up wondering if she talked too much or not enough. She spent a while trying to figure out where she fit, too loud in some rooms, too quiet in others, always adjusting herself to make everyone else comfortable.
She started writing because it was the one place her voice couldn’t be interrupted or misunderstood. Pages didn’t talk back. Pages didn’t whisper. Pages just sat there and let her empty out everything she carried.
Before I Learned When to Stop Talking is her first book but she’s been writing it her whole life, in journals, in notes on her phone, in conversations she wished she could have back. She wrote it for the version of herself who needed permission to take up space. And for anyone still figuring out that their voice was never the problem.
She lives in a small house with too many books and a kitchen table where most of this book was written. She still sometimes talks too much. She still sometimes stays quiet. She’s okay with both now.