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  • Love Is the Answer to Darkness

    A visceral dream on Valentine’s Eve revealed a mansion on a cliff, buzzards circling, and a message I couldn’t ignore: Love is the answer to darkness. Sometimes what looks like it’s tearing you apart is exactly what will set you free.

    February 13, 2026

  • Part 2: How Environment Shapes Us—From Worm Theology to Finding Ourselves

    How can I know what parts of me are shaped by my environment? And what parts of me are who I really am? As an adopted child who later joined an evangelical church, I’ve learned that worm theology doesn’t just teach you about God—it teaches you who you’re supposed to be. And unlearning that is…

    February 11, 2026

  • Beyond the Bubble: What Two Halftime Shows Taught Me About Belonging

    I’m not a football fan, but I watched the Super Bowl for the halftime shows. What I saw revealed something far more important than entertainment: two visions of belonging in America. One triggered memories of my evangelical past—the thin bubble of shared beliefs that burst when I stepped outside the lines. The other showed people…

    February 9, 2026

  • The Roundabout: Why Religious Trauma Keeps Us Circling

    Isn’t it strange that the same religion teaching about the unconditional love of Jesus attaches a long list of expectations to those who follow him? Toxic religion is like having a parent who says they love you unconditionally but expects you to perform in a certain way to get what you need.

    February 6, 2026

  • A Prayer of Complaint, Petition, and Resolution

    A prayer born from threshold moments—naming consumption as the shadow we refuse to see. For survivors learning the difference between being fed and being fed upon.

    January 29, 2026

  • A Table for My Enemies

    “I have spent so much of my life closing and barring the door to the parts of myself I find unacceptable. I’m realizing as I get older how much energy it requires to continue to push on this door to prevent it from breaking open. Sitting on my desk is a little golden table—a sacred…

    January 26, 2026

  • When Pain Has No Place to Land

    Maybe you grew up knowing instinctively that your pain wasn’t safe to share. That if you brought your scraped knees and bruised hearts to your caregivers, somehow you’d end up taking care of them instead. It wasn’t your job to absorb someone else’s volcanic grief. It never was. You can care without carrying it.

    January 10, 2026

  • The Healing in Contracting and Expanding

    What do you need today to best take care of yourself? This is the question I asked myself this morning. So much feels heavy when I open social media. So much chaos in the world. But my own needs don’t stop just because the world is in a mess. How much can I hold? What…

    January 9, 2026

  • Understanding Spiritual Trauma and Its Impact

    When the ground you thought would always hold becomes unstable—that’s spiritual trauma. After a decade of trying to heal in places that retraumatized me, I learned what survivors actually need. It’s not what most churches think.

    December 12, 2025

  • Connection vs. Consumption: Recognizing When Relationships Extract Rather Than Nourish Part 2: Love vs. Consumption Series

    A Note on Process: This piece emerged from a long conversation—with myself, really, though AI served as a reflective partner in the process. I started with raw, stream-of-consciousness writing trying to understand my own patterns around connection and consumption. The AI helped me see the structure in what I was already saying, asked questions that…

    December 2, 2025
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