The Clarity It Brings After healing, silence and solitude stop being something you enter — and start becoming something you live from. The noise doesn’t disappear overnight. What changes is how your body responds to it. I started noticing clarity first in my reactions. Things that once sent me into panic, over-explaining, or shutdown no longer had theContinue reading “Silence & Solitude — Part II”
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Healthy Comes Before Healing
A Sunday Reflection For a long time, I believed healing meant I had to be “fixed” before I could move forward—before a new relationship, a new job, or a new chapter of life. But healing doesn’t start there. Healing begins with becoming healthy. When you are unhealthy—mentally, emotionally, or spiritually—you don’t heal. You stay stuck.Continue reading “Healthy Comes Before Healing”
If you’re in a place so dark…you don’t believe you will ever heal…
I was there once too in survival mode đź©ą and where i discovered that stepping out of survival mode, was my journey to healing ❤️‍🩹 Healing from trauma was never something I believed I could do. I thought trauma—complex PTSD, triggers, painful memories—was so deeply embedded in my nervous system that healing wasn’t possible. IContinue reading “If you’re in a place so dark…you don’t believe you will ever heal…”
Silence & Solitude
After Healing Silence and solitude after healing are very different than the silence that comes before it. This kind of solitude didn’t arrive because I collapsed or gave up. It came after healing — when I slowly stepped back into the world with new awareness, healthy boundaries, and a nervous system that was no longerContinue reading “Silence & Solitude”
Healing Layers — Part Four
From Survival to Living When I was in survival mode, I don’t know that I consciously thought about it this way at the time. But looking back, survival looked like constant planning, rigid structure, and never truly resting. Everything had to be done by a certain time—usually by Sunday evening—so I could finally “relax.” SaturdaysContinue reading “Healing Layers — Part Four”
Healing Layers – Part 3: Waiting, Boundaries & Integration
Integration was the part of healing I didn’t expect. After the unraveling… after the awareness… after the realization that so much of my life had been lived in survival… There came a quiet. At first, it felt unfamiliar — almost unsettling — because for so long my body had only known chaos, anxiety, and constantContinue reading “Healing Layers – Part 3: Waiting, Boundaries & Integration”
Healing layers part 2:Â
Survival vs Healing: The Difference Changed My Whole Life Healing isn’t linear, and this reflection comes from a real moment in my journey. I share it as lived experience—honest, unfiltered, and still unfolding. One of the biggest things I’ve learned this past year is the difference between surviving and healing. It wasn’t obvious to meContinue reading “Healing layers part 2: “
🌿 HEALING LAYERS – PART 1Â
Where My Healing Truly Began: January 2024 Healing isn’t linear, and this reflection comes from a real moment in my journey. I share it as lived experience—honest, unfiltered, and still unfolding. January 2024 was the moment everything inside me began to overflow. What I thought was a mental spiral was actually my nervous system reachingContinue reading “🌿 HEALING LAYERS – PART 1 “
From Peacekeeping to Peacemaking: A Healing Manifesto
A Declaration of Truth, Health, and Alignment I believe healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about returning to who you were before you learned to stay quiet to survive. I believe silence is not peace. Avoiding conflict does not heal wounds—it buries them. What is buried does not disappear; it lives inContinue reading “From Peacekeeping to Peacemaking: A Healing Manifesto”
Welcome Here: This Is a Healing Space
Welcome. If you found your way here, I want you to know this space was created with intention, honesty, and care. This blog isn’t about having it all figured out. It isn’t about quick fixes, advice, or pretending healing is linear. It exists because healing—real healing—comes in layers, and sometimes you don’t recognize those layersContinue reading “Welcome Here: This Is a Healing Space”
The Honest Healing Journey with Kristi 