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January 9, 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 Continue reading

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November 23, 2025

LOVE VS. CONSUMPTION: I DIDN’T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

I used to think being valued meant being loved. I didn’t know someone could see my worth and still devour me whole. Here’s what I learned about the difference between love and consumption. Continue reading

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September 16, 2025

Breaking Down the Barriers to Love

“I spent almost half a decade looking into the mirror and seeing someone else. Who did I see? Someone who everyone else expected me to be. People-pleasing doesn’t give your true self the opportunity to be loved—and it doesn’t give someone else the opportunity to be loved by your true self.” Continue reading

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September 14, 2025

Are You Running on Fear?

Our nervous systems are wired to keep us alive, not to keep us happy. They’re incredibly good at detecting danger, but terrible at telling the difference between real threats and false alarms. That rustling in the bushes could be a bear or it could be a squirrel. Your nervous system doesn’t care—it just screams ‘RUN!'” Continue reading

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September 6, 2025

Finding Joy and Hope Beyond the Emotional Highs: A Journey from Manufactured to Authentic

After losing the intoxicating emotional highs of church community, I discovered that true joy and hope aren’t dramatic peaks to chase, but subtle moments that accumulate like stalactites—building lasting strength one drop at a time in the darkness. Continue reading

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August 31, 2025

When the Shell Cracks: Finding Truth Beyond Religious Performance

Truth always finds a way to surface. Our ego tries to keep everything together, but eventually the shell cracks and what’s inside starts leaking out. If we’re brave enough to look at what seeps out instead of frantically patching the holes, we might find what we’ve been searching for all along. Continue reading

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August 23, 2025

The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Finding Truth Beyond Collective Narratives

We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion wrote. But what happens when those shared stories—our collective narratives—become barriers to the very connection they promise to create? Growing up with parents whose lives were like apple carts filled to capacity, I learned early how fragile our shared stories can be. One uncomfortable truth… Continue reading

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July 23, 2025

When Authority Becomes the Enemy of Truth

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert EinsteinThe ambulance lights cut through the darkness at the convenience store. Someone had played Russian roulette and lost. As I drove past that night, seventeen and heartbroken after my boyfriend left me for my best friend, I looked up at the empty sky… Continue reading

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July 16, 2025

Learning to Trust Yourself: A Journey of Self-Discovery

“Here’s what I’ve learned: self-trust isn’t something you either have or don’t have—it’s something you build through small, consistent deposits of self-advocacy.Just like a bank account, trust accumulates through repeated deposits. Every time you honor a commitment to yourself—even a tiny one—you’re making a deposit. Every time you speak up for your needs, set a… Continue reading

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July 15, 2025

Why Systems Choose Silence Over Survivors

When you’re a survivor and hardly anyone believes you, it becomes almost impossible not to question yourself. Even with a therapist saying over and over “this isn’t your fault,” even with the friends and family who stuck around telling you the same thing, that part of me that was wired to believe I needed the… Continue reading

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