Category: Personal Stories
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Grief, Part 1: Understanding What Grief Really Is
Content Warning: This post discusses grief, trauma, addiction, and loss. Please take care of yourself while reading. 🤍 Grief is one of the most universal human experiences—and one of the most misunderstood. It is often reduced to sadness, expected to follow a predictable timeline in certain stages, and quietly tolerated only for a short period…
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How Silence, Systems, and Survival Made Abuse Seem Normal: A Survivor’s Perspective
Content Warning: This post discusses domestic violence, childhood trauma, and emotional, psychological, physical, and sexual abuse. Please take care of yourself while reading. This is a detailed recall in a nutshell with my experience related to domestic violence. Resources are included at the end and on the Resource page of the website. Opening: A Personal Truth…
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From Construction to Corporate: The Silent Mental-Health Struggles No One Is Talking About
The Grass Isn’t Green Anywhere — Every Industry Has Its Own Battle Throughout my career, I’ve worked in a range of environments — corporate offices over the past decade and a half, customer-facing roles from middle school through college, and other high-pressure workplaces — and no matter the setting, one thing remained consistent: people were…
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A Year of ADHD, Trauma, and Grace: Realizing My Brain Isn’t Broken, It’s a Survivor
✨ A Dangerous Trifecta: ADHD, Anxiety & PTSD: What I Learned This Year My mom has “joked” since I can remember that I have ADHD. But…. she was right. The funny part of it is that when she and I are together, the shit show gets 10x worse 🤔😅. Before Dustin’s death, I would laugh…
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The Unspoken Cost of Being Strong “All the Time”
Strength looks different to different people. My form of DIY therapy —just me, my thoughts, and whatever my Spotify DJ decides I’m emotionally capable of handling. Now I am comfortable with the apps and how it works so my anxiety is not high. I actually am much less anxious when I stay busy working. Some…