Moments of Becoming, by Lorelle Benson

Moments of Becoming is a lyrical collection of prose-poems and vignettes tracing the turning points that shape a life: childhood wounds, family betrayals, inherited shame, professional burnout, and the difficult daily work of healing.

Moving non-linearly through memory, landscape, mythology, and clinical experience, Lorelle Benson reflects on what it means to survive what once silenced her. From the red dust, reef, and rainforest of North Queensland to the inner terrain of trauma, shame, courage, and love, each piece becomes part of a larger reckoning with identity, empathy, and self-worth.

At once intimate and expansive, Moments of Becoming is a meditation on the wounded healer’s path: not a story of becoming whole because the past disappears, but of learning to breathe, choose, and reshape a life beyond it.