Stories, reflections, and the truths I found along the way
This collection began with a single moment of clarity—
and grew into a body of work mapping my journey from survival to wholeness.
Over the past two months, I’ve written these essays while walking through the quiet work of healing.
They are rooted in truth, story, and the frameworks I use to understand human experience:
THX, PERMAH, and the Admiration Equation.
Each piece is a reflection of a stage I lived through:
silence, rupture, remembering, letting go… and finally, becoming.
I didn’t rush to publish them.
I waited.
Until each one felt complete—for now.
Until the words felt like offerings, not wounds.
Until I felt like I could hand them to someone else, and say:
"You’re not alone."
There are more than 20 essays here.
You don’t need to read them in order.
Just choose the one that calls to your soul.
Come back again. Share them if they speak to you. This space was built for healing.
For yours.
And mine.
1. What Healing Really Is
Healing isn’t about coping with pain—it’s about preparing to receive joy, love, voice, and hope without fear.
2. The Sacred Work of Becoming
To heal is to sacrifice the old self for something sacred: your truest becoming.
3. The Invitation to Those Who Are Healing Quietly
For the ones healing in silence, holding it all together—this is for you.
4. The Sacred Map of Healing: How we become whole again
Using the THX frameworks to understand the emotional stages of healing.
5. Practices for the Journey
Grounded rituals and prompts for each stage of healing, from surviving to becoming.
6. The Voice That Wants to Be Heard
Healing allows your voice to return—not for validation, but for liberation.
7. Sacred Boundaries: The Edges That Set You Free
Boundaries are not walls. They’re where your wholeness begins.
8. What Love Looks Like When I’m Healing
Love, when you’re healing, isn’t about rescue—it’s about witnessing.
9. Receiving Without Earning
You don’t have to prove you’re worthy of love, rest, joy, or peace.
10. I’m Not Behind—This Is My Becoming
You’re not late. You’re on the sacred path of becoming.
11. The Softness I Used to Fear
You weren’t meant to live in armor. Healing lets tenderness return.
12. When My Own Presence Became Enough
No more performing. No more proving. Just being. And it’s enough.
13. The Joy I Almost Forgot I Could Feel
Grief muted joy. Healing helped it find its voice again.
14. The Grief That Dressed Itself as Strength
What looked like anger was actually mourning. What looked like strength was survival.
15. The Fear of Being Loved
Sometimes the thing we want most still feels dangerous. Until it doesn’t.
16. My Needs Are Not a Burden
Needing is not weakness. It’s how we build real connection.
17. The Space Between Who I Was and Who I’m Becoming
How I stood still for a year—and everything changed.
18. The Year I Stood Between Us
The personal story of the year I stopped pulling her along and started standing in my truth.
19. I’m Allowed to Take Up Space
I used to think smallness kept me safe. Now I live in my full presence.
20. When Healing Means Letting Go (Again)
Some goodbyes happen more than once. That’s not failure—it’s integration.
21. The Life I’m Building Now
After the healing, comes the living. And I’m ready for that now.
✨ Want to Start Somewhere?
If you’re not sure where to begin, start with whatever title makes your breath catch. That’s probably the one.
Thank you for walking this journey with me.
If any part of these reflections speaks to your own story, I hope you’ll stay. We’re not alone here.