Healing Reveals Where Your Energy Goes There’s something I’ve noticed while working on my own healing journey: the more work you put into healing, the less time and energy you have for people who haven’t done any of theirs. What I mean is this: as you heal, your tolerance for chaos, denial, and emotional immaturity […]
The Strange Transition of Feeling It’s a strange transition to spend your life feeling everything but burying it because feeling it fully would hurt more than going numb. Then you heal and let yourself feel again, and suddenly you wonder if you feel too much. Because sometimes… it really feels that way. Learning to Regulate […]
The Whiplash of Healing (And Why It Still Catches Me Off Guard) If you’ve read my blog for more than five minutes, you already know I’ve been on this healing ride for a long while. Long enough to have collected a whole scrapbook of “Oh wow, I finally get it” moments… and an equally thick […]
The Part of My Childhood That Still Hits the Hardest I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the relationship I had with my parents while I was growing up. And the part that’s always been the one that hits me the hardest is the one with my mom. Not because she did anything wrong, far […]
A Little Secret About Vulnerability For those of you who are regular readers of my blog, you might think I have no problems with posting what I do. That I might even make it look easy. I’m going to let you into a little secret. I do, and it’s not. It’s only recently that I […]
The Accidental Comfort Movie Last night I got comfy in bed, full of the cold, armed with tissues, tea, and the kind of man flu that makes you question whether you should draft a will “just in case.” In my search for comfort, I landed on Frankenstein on Netflix. I’ve always loved the old black-and-white […]
