🌱 What I Used to Believe Healing Was For most of my life, I thought healing meant: • moving on • not crying anymore • not letting it affect me • being angry instead of hurt • building a life that looked “fine” from the outside • telling my story so others would believe me •…

Four years ago, I started this healing blog because I truly believed I was healing. I believed I was “over it.” I believed telling my story meant I had moved on. I was wrong — deeply, painfully wrong. And if you’re reading this right now, especially if you were one of the four people who…

Leaving a toxic relationship is a lot like trying to quit smoking.  Until you see the signs and you want to quit, it doesn’t matter what anyone else says.   Not all of if was bad, but when it was bad, it was bad.  And the few times it was good, I would begin to question…

I wanted to do this blog for two reasons.  One, I want to heal, I want to finally close the doors on my past and move on.  Two, I have done a lot of reading over the past year…books, inspirational posts, and learning about narcissism.  If I would have read stories about it early, knew…

I don’t know where to start, so I’ll just start where it’s fresh. I didn’t realize it then, but I know it now. When I thought my entire world was crashing down around me, in reality, it was teaching me much needed lessons to break free of a past that was single handedly destroying me.…

For years I asked myself over and over why I was never good enough, why love was so painful and then overthinking began, the anxiety, the lack of confidence, the depression, the sadness, the self hate, the self sabotage, the thoughts of suicide. The journey has not been easy, and some days I didn’t think…