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Already Home

What if home isn’t somewhere you finally arrive at? What if it’s a moment you notice — and then another, and then another? A post for anyone exhausted from trying to heal their way home.

March 26, 2026
What Burns and What Remains – On trauma bonds, genuine connection, and learning to tell the difference

I stood next to my husband in the backyard by the burn barrel, watching notebooks go up in flames. They were bound with ribbons — pages and pages of my own handwriting, years of writing I had done to survive. To cope. To find myself in the middle of a life that often felt like…

March 18, 2026
Are We Human or Are We Dancer?

Are we living from something true and rooted in us, or are we moving to someone else’s rhythm without even knowing it? I spent years dancing to a beat that wasn’t mine — convinced it was leading me home. This is what I learned about systems that use our deepest needs to keep us in…

March 12, 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
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
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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