If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’ve put in the work. Not just little steps here and there, but years of therapy, really digging into the messy stuff, and a whole lot of uncomfortable growth. I’ve spent hours in therapy. Dug through emotional wreckage. Untangled beliefs that weren’t even mine. I faced parts […]
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There Is Empowerment In Vulnerability
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. […]
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Let’s Normalize Emotional Honesty
Emotional honesty is the practice of communicating your feelings and listening to others’ feelings without judgment, criticism, or defense, and it really needs to be normalized a lot more. Even though I have been guilty of not practicing emotional honesty in the past, I am making a conscious effort to doing so now. Having gone […]
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Only Way Out Is through
I keep being reminded of this phrase. The only way out is through, and the more I am reminded of it, the more relevant it has become in my healing. After all, healing is a journey, and we should never stop moving. I spent many years not feeling things. That any time I would meet […]