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How Menopause Exposed the Hidden Trauma I Spent Years Ignoring

“There is no way to be whole without first embracing our brokenness. Wounds transform us, if we let them.” ~Sue Monk Kidd Menopause flagged up [...]

The Gift of Being Single (More Joy, Less Fear)

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ~Michel de Montaigne Some people fear spiders. Some fear public speaking. [...]

Why Narcissistic Abuse Doesn’t Define You and How I Found the Love I Deserve

“When it hurts to move on, just remember the pain you felt hanging on.” ~Unknown There was a time when I thought my heart would never [...]

The Prowler in My Mind: Learning to Live with Depression

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” ~Leonard Cohen When depression comes, I feel it like a prowler gliding through [...]

The Unexpected Therapy I Found on My Phone

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” ~Dr. Seuss The notification pops up on my phone: “Jason, [...]

Letting Go of the Life You Were Told to Want

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Ever since I [...]

Work Is Not Family: A Lesson I Never Wanted but Need to Share

“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.” ~Peter Levine I was sitting [...]

5 Surefire Signs You Grew Up with an Emotionally Immature Parent

“There’s no such thing as a ‘bad kid’—just angry, hurt, tired, scared, confused, impulsive ones expressing their feelings and needs the only way they know [...]

What Finally Helped Me Break Free from Constant Food Noise

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.” ~Viktor Frankl For years, I thought something was [...]

How to Stay Kind Without Losing Yourself to Toxic Behavior

“The strongest people are the ones who are still kind after the world tore them apart.” ~Raven Emotion A few months ago, I stopped being [...]