Category: Personal
Week 3 — Finding Confidence After Emotional & Verbal Abuse There was a version of me that flinched before speaking. She rehearsed sentences in her head three times before saying them out loud, bracing for the sigh, the eye roll, the correction. She apologized for having needs. She shrank so someone else could feel big. […]
I loved someone with my whole chest — and still had to close the door. That was the lesson that took me the longest to learn. For years, I believed love was a permission slip. If I loved you, you got access to me. My time, my energy, my forgiveness, my open door — no […]
I once held onto a version of myself I no longer recognized — just to keep someone who was already halfway out the door. I called it love. I called it loyalty. I called it “being the bigger person.” But the truth is uglier than that. I was slowly handing over pieces of myself — […]
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