The Yellow Was a Lie: A memoir of childhood, control, and the courage to speak

Shegrew up learning how to survive what hurt her.

Then she became a mother, and chose to build the safety she never had.

In The Yellow Was a Lie, Cheyanna Fields tells the story she once promised herself she would never speak aloud. A story about childhood marked by secrets, silence, and the kind of betrayal that reshapes a life. But this is not a memoir about staying in the dark. It is about clawing toward the light.

Through repressed memories, resurfacing truths, panic attacks, love that healed instead of harmed, and the fierce devotion that was born the moment she first held her son, this memoir shows what happens when a woman finally becomes her own safe place.

Raw, lyrical, and profoundly human, this is a book for the cycle-breakers. The mothers and fathers rebuilding the world from the inside out. The survivors who are still here.

The yellow was a lie.

But the life she built is the truth she chose instead.