What does it mean to be seen? And what does it cost to be unseen?

For many, life can feel like moving through glass: visible yet unnoticed, present yet overlooked, or even worse—acknowledged only for the wrong reasons. To feel transparent is to exist in the tension between longing for recognition and fearing misrepresentation.

In her latest book, TRANSPARENT: The Whisper of the Wounded, MARIAH CLAIBORNE gives voice to the quiet ache of invisibility. Through reflection, story, and piercing honesty, she explores what it means to live in a world that often refuses to look deeper, to recognize the truth of who we are, or to honor our value beyond appearances and assumptions.
For anyone who has ever felt unseen, misjudged, or misunderstood, this is both a mirror and a lantern: a reminder that your worth is not determined by others’ perception, and that even in the silence of being overlooked, you are still here, still real, still radiant.