It’s been a year since we lost my aunt, and honestly, it feels different than any other loss I’ve experienced. My aunt was the last of my maternal relatives, my mom’s youngest sister, and after my mom passed in 2007, she took on the role of a second mom to me. She was my guide, […]
The Year Everything Changed (For Real This Time)
If you had told me a year ago that I’d be writing a post like this, clear-headed, grounded, and dare I say… hopeful? I probably would’ve laughed. Or more likely, shut down completely and changed the subject. But here I am, at the start of 2025, taking a deep breath and recognizing just how far […]
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Letting People Be Wrong About Me
For most of my life, I’ve kept things pretty close to the chest. I wasn’t the kind of person to open up easily. Sharing my thoughts and feelings with others felt… risky. But something’s been shifting lately. As I’ve started working on myself and my healing, I’ve realized just how powerful vulnerability can be. I […]
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Healing Is A lonely Process
In therapy, I learned that healing can be lonely, a concept I didn’t fully grasp until recently. As I work on myself and navigate through emotions and confront my past, I realize that the journey often feels isolating, even when surrounded by supportive friends and family. It quickly becomes clear that healing is a deeply […]
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Working On Healing My Inner Child
Change is tough, especially when you’ve spent so much of your life in survival mode. But in order to heal, it’s crucial to address the wounds of your inner child. Having worked on processing my emotions more effectively, the next step for me was to actually start doing that, feeling and dealing with those emotions. […]
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The Multi Layers Of Grief
There is one thing that I was never prepared for in my healing, and that is the amount of grief we go through. It seems that once I have reached a certain point in my trauma recovery, the progress I have made comes with various amounts of it. And I’m not talking about the grief […]