Explore ways to reclaim your strength and confidence after trauma. Inspiring stories and tools to support your journey toward empowerment.
When I Started This Site I gave a quick rundown on why I started this website on my About page. But now, almost two years later, with my readership growing, I can see how it’s become more than that. Not only did this site become the place where I stopped pretending I was fine, it’s […]
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 […]
Living with CPTSD and trauma, you often move through life so carefully that you forget who the real you is, or sometimes, you never even get the chance to know who you were, because the events happened so young. You shrink yourself, tuck away pieces, and survive, but it comes at the cost of feeling […]
There’s something that’s always puzzled me: the need people seem to have to constantly reinvent themselves. New year? Reinvent. Breakup? Reinvent. Got bangs? Reinvent. It’s like we’re all supposed to be our own PR team, constantly rebranding to stay relevant, like some sort of personal SEO strategy. (See what I did there? Threw in some […]
Recently, I wrote about the time I tried meditation, and how my CPTSD added a whole extra layer of “what fresh hell is this?” to the experience. Today I’m about to take you on a journey into the steaming pile of self-improvement and self-torture, also known as hot yoga. Yes, you heard that right. Hot […]
For a long time, I believed that vulnerability was something to avoid. I thought it would leave me wide open to hurt and pain, and I wasn’t ready for that. But as I’ve worked on healing, I’ve come to realize something that I never fully understood before: vulnerability can actually be a source of empowerment. […]
