Learning to Filter Without Losing Myself
November 13, 2025
Reflecting on asking my training group for help, noticing how I use food as a stand-in for sweetness, and learning to filter my inner...
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This is where I share thoughts, stories, and reflections on what it means to live more honestly and authentically. Click here to skip to the blogs or search below.
These blogs reflect personal experiences and emotional truths. They aren’t about blame — they’re about healing, reflection, and reclaiming meaning through honest expression.
If you’re exploring painful or confusing emotions and don’t have support right now, please be gentle with yourself. We strongly recommend working with a therapist as some discoveries may be difficult to process alone.
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Trusting What I Notice
October 21, 2025
Exploring how to hold my sensitivity to others without being overwhelmed by it, and how to trust myself to use only what is useful....
Read More →Trusting My Intuition
October 21, 2025
A reflection on a moment with my tutor that revealed how defensiveness can mask shame, and how trusting my own perception helps me navigate...
Read More →Resilience in the Face of Performative Connection
October 20, 2025
Reflecting on performative connection, childhood survival, and the strength to keep going despite it all.
Read More →Letting Go of Scraps
October 20, 2025
Learning to let go of unreliable connections, embrace real safety, and reparent the parts of me that once clung to scraps.
Read More →Letting Go of Old Ties, Living From Who I Am Now
October 20, 2025
Learning to let go of waiting for others to change, and finding peace in nurturing my inner child.
Read More →When the Other Shoe Never Drops
October 19, 2025
Processing positive feedback, inner criticism, and the echoes of childhood patterns.
Read More →Good Enough, or Settling?
October 18, 2025
Exploring the tension between staying in a workable home and the old pattern of tolerating scraps, finding agency and groundedness in choice.
Read More →Reframing the Critical Parent
October 18, 2025
Exploring how my inner drill sergeant might actually come from love, and how to balance validation with encouragement toward action.
Read More →The Childhood Ache and the Question of Existence
October 18, 2025
Exploring the ache of feeling undeserving of existence, tracing its roots to childhood roles and projections, and sitting with the grief of internalized shame....
Read More →The Shed Dream
October 17, 2025
There’s this picture I keep coming back to in my mind: a proper shed, a workshop that’s not just for storage but for me....
Read More →Letting the Website Be Enough
October 17, 2025
Reflections on creating my website as both a tool for self-discovery and a possible resource for others.
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