Whispers of a Warrior
There's a profound difference between voicing your truth and safeguarding it.
For a long time, I believed that articulating my truth was sufficient. If I could express it—clearly, honestly, without apology—that would be healing. That would be empowerment. That would catalyze the change I yearned for.
But experience taught me otherwise: there's a vast chasm between speaking truth and embodying it. Many of us find ourselves adrift in that gap.
When Truth Becomes Performance
During one of the m...
Have you ever looked in the mirror and wondered, “Where did I go?”
There comes a moment—sometimes a whisper, sometimes a roar—when we realize we've become strangers to ourselves.
Not because of external changes, but because, amidst the caregiving, the holding-it-all-together, the managing and the masking... we've lost touch with our true selves.
We've become enmeshed in roles, expectations, and the relentless pursuit of meeting everyone else's needs.
You might not voice it. You might not eve...
Sometimes, the smallest acts of rebellion change everything.
There’s a moment I return to often—not because it was dramatic or life-altering in an obvious way, but because it drew a quiet line between who I was and who I was becoming.
It happened during what I now call my hurricane season. You know those stretches of life when everything feels urgent, heartbreaking, and spinning completely beyond your control? That was me.
My dad was fighting illness. My son had just been diagnosed with Type ...
Have you ever noticed how your body "remembers" what your mind tries to forget?
There's a reason you get sick after a breakup. Why your neck tightens when you feel unheard. Why your digestion rebels during grief. Why mysterious symptoms flare when you're swallowing words you need to say.
These patterns aren't coincidences. They're not just "stress." They're your body speaking a language you've forgotten how to understand.
Your body is carrying what your mind hasn't processed. Your nervous sys...
Let me tell you a story — because if you’re here, I have a feeling you’ll see yourself inside its edges.
There was a time in my life — before cancer interrupted my path, before diabetes turned me into both warrior and student, before I was navigating chronic pain while raising a child with complex needs — when I was completely untethered from myself.
It’s not that I lacked dreams. I had vision. I wanted a family, a stable home, a life that mattered. But I was submerged under something heavier:...
You don’t have to be healed to be held by the light.
If you’ve been walking this journey with me lately, you know we’ve been traveling through tender, soul-deep territory together.
We’ve remembered who you are—
beyond the caregiving roles that consume you,
beyond the exhaustion that clouds your essence,
beyond the responsibilities that threaten to eclipse your light.
We explored posture as a portal to your power. We opened the conversation around boundaries—not as restrictions, but as invitat...
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