
Healing & Growth
Honest reflections on healing and growth: trauma recovery, self-trust, inner child work, and learning to treat yourself with kindness.
Some of my most personal writing lives here, the slow and honest work of healing. These are reflections on trauma and recovery, learning to treat myself with kindness, reparenting my inner child, and finding a little more self-trust than I had before.
If you are somewhere in the middle of your own healing, I hope these pieces remind you that growth is rarely a straight line, and that you are not doing it wrong.


Why Do People Hurt Animals?

The Spark That Started Everything

The Friend I Still Miss And Why I Always Will

Dissecting Evil

Why Do We Need Validation So Much?

A Letter to My Mother

Loving Someone with AuDHD: What Support Actually Looks Like

When Pain Becomes Too Much: Understanding Suicide and How to Help

Spring Awakening

Starting Over & Finding Your Passion

When “Fast Learner” Feels Like Pressure Instead of Support

When My Emotions Create a World That Isn't Fully Real

Birthdays: The Day That Brings Me Back

Learning to Stand Alone

Trauma and Healing

Be the Parent to Your Inner Child

Stress, Burnout, Trauma & Neurodivergence: Walking Together Through the Weight

Masking in Autism: The Hidden Exhaustion of Everyday Communication

Finding Light in the Darkest Month

Living with Intensity: Understanding Emotional Extremes in BPD

Living and Learning About ADHD: A Neurotypical Perspective

Living with BPD Traits: My Story & Understanding the Full Picture

Living on the Edge

The Room Inside: Meeting My Younger Self with Compassion

Say Goodbye to Someone I Love

Family: A Place to Breathe or a Cage to Escape?

"A Safe Space in the Sun

For the days that feel heavy

I Didn't Grow Up I Grew Old

Forgiveness: A Path to Healing, Not a Shortcut

A Nice Story On Fear, Solitude & The Sea

The Mirror Stage

Why Do I Freeze When I Try to Start My Life?

When Home Is Far Away: Homesickness, Depression, and the Longing That Doesn't Go Away

Grieving the Parent You Never Had: When the Real and the Imaginary Don't Meet

Why I Go to Therapy

When Small Mistakes Feel Like Big Threats

Living with Quiet Sadness

Why Do Some Tasks Feel So Overwhelming?

Learning to Welcome My Anger
