Our obsession with sameness and screens is eroding empathy, diversity, and resilience. The next generation is watching.
“Connection is why we’re here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.” — Brené Brown
We live in an age of constant contact, yet genuine connection feels inc...
“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
When I was younger, I was told more than once that I could never make money being creative. Productivity and ambition were celebrated, but creativity? That was seen as frivolous, impractical, even a waste of time. So, I ...
In today’s world, hustle culture has become a badge of honor — a relentless push to be productive, successful, and constantly “on.” Social media amplifies it with slogans like “rise and grind” and “sleep is for the weak,” glorifying overwork and making rest feel like failure. But beneath this ...
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?”
We all remember the wicked queen in Snow White — obsessed with being the most admired. But beneath her vanity was something deeper: insecurity, comparison, and a desperate need for external validation.
She didn’t love herself. She ...
The other night, my daughter—who lives out of state—called me, clearly fired up. She’d been watching Sex and the City and couldn’t hold back:
“I don’t understand why people think this is what a good relationship looks like… it’s toxic.”
I smiled, because she was absolutely right...
Every day, the headlines scream. War. Division. Disaster. Another tragedy. Another scandal. Another reason to feel unsafe.
The news cycle has become a relentless reel of heartbreak — and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, hopeless, even numb. We scroll through chaos, absorbing fear like secondhand s...
There was a woman I once worked with who kept a chipped teacup on her desk. Not tucked away—displayed. She told me it had cracked during a fight with someone she loved. She’d thrown it, then r...
“You’ve gone full Rapunzel,” my friend teased, half-laughing, half-concerned. “Are you ever coming down from that tower?”
She meant it playfully, but the image stuck. A woman in a tower, wrapped in quiet, choosing solitude not as punishment—but as medicine. For me, stillness has been a way to re...
I saw a TikTok yesterday. A woman stood in front of her bathroom mirror, mascara smudged, holding a sticky note that read: “I am still worthy.” She whispered it like a secret. The caption said: “Day 37 of loving myself after betrayal.” It had 2.3 million views.
There’s a whole genre of these now...
My son was in Air Force bootcamp when he called me—voice tight, pride trembling. He’d failed one of his exams and wanted to come home. I could hear the effort in his breath: trying to “man up,” trying not to cry, trying to sound okay when he wasn’t.
But I didn’t need him to be okay. I need...
There’s a quiet pressure that creeps in after betrayal trauma. A whisper that says: You must be fully healed before you let anyone close again. You must be flawless, boundary-bound, trigger-free, and emotionally enlightened before you’re safe to connect.
It’s seductive, isn’t it? The idea that h...
I took a hit once in martial arts because I forgot to keep my hands up. It was fast, sharp, and humbling. But the hits that stayed with me weren’t physical—they came from people who never asked what I’d survived, only what I’d done wrong. In betrayal trauma recovery, judgment often arrives faster t...
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