How they treat you has nothing to do with how they actually feel about you. How they treat you is a reflection of how they feel about themselves. If they are confusing, they are confused. If they are emotionally unavailable, it’s probably because they are. If...
Watching MAID felt like watching a mirror into my life. It was cathartic, humanizing and depressing. Reflecting back, I didn’t even really know I had been caught in a cycle of abuse until a few months after – I just knew that it FELT like my upbringing. I...
I wanted to add one thing that didn’t make it to my last post. LISTEN, please listen to people when they talk to you about their struggles. I am not going to say “especially a mom” because all people and their struggles matter. If someone says...
I hate the rhetoric on self love. I hate the narrative of you have to love yourself before you can have anything or do anything or heal anything…Children, like me, who grew up in a home where it was normal for a parent to tell you what you think or what you...
I hate the rhetoric on self love. I hate the narrative of you have to love yourself before you can have anything or do anything or heal anything… Children, like me, who grew up in a home where it was normal for a parent to tell you what you think or what you...
There aren’t many pictures of my daughter and I from 2018 – 2020. Most of them are of just her. I was too tired, too disheveled, too stressed to even want to look at myself.This weekend I binged Maid (Netflix) and had a very cathartic experience owning my...
