Tag: healing
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The Trial Inside My Head: Why I’m Finally Putting Down the Red Pen
If someone else spoke to me the way i speak to myself, I would call it emotional abuse. I would tell a friend to walk away from that relationship; I would recognize it as toxic and cruel. But because the voice lives inside my own skull, I call it “accountability.” I hold myself to standards…
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8 Ways To Build Confidence (While Still Figuring Life Out)
For most of my life, I lived with a quiet, persistent suspicion: everyone else has a secret that i missed. I’ve spent years scrolling through social media, watching carefully curated lives unfold on a screen, and feeling the stinging ache of being “behind.” I compared my messy, unpolished reality to everyone else’s highlight reel and…
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The Performance of Being Good
Somewhere along the way I confused being good with being everything. Good mothers don’t lose their patience. Good partners don’t complain to much. Good women don’t need reassurance. Good people don’t drop the ball. So I performed it. I performed calm. I performed capable. I performed selflessly Even when I was exhausted – especially when…
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The Social Media Spiral
It doesn’t start dramatically. It starts with a heavy sigh, a quiet moment on the couch, or a five-minute break between tasks. I pick up my phone. Just a scroll. Just a bit of “down time”. But within minutes, the air in the room feels thinner. I feel behind. I’m behind on motherhood. Behind on…
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Still Figuring Life Out
There is a quiet pressure that tells us we should always have the next stepped mapped out. We are expected to have the perfect answers, the flawless routine, and a clear, unshakeable direction. But life rarely moves in a straight line, and the closer you look at the people who seem to have it all…
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