October, as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, shines a light on the disturbing reality of violence against women and children. It’s a month that stirs deep frustration and anger within me—frustration …
Money Secrets: When Love Turns Into a Ledger
Let’s talk about secrets. Not the kind you whisper during pillow talk or write in your journal—but the ones you never get told. The ones that show up later with …
Three Strangers, One Question: How Are You, Really?
Three Strangers, One Question: How Are You, Really? There’s something about standing still in the ordinary that invites the extraordinary. The ordinary being the checkout line, or a folding chair …
Made to Feel Very Small
My romantic toxic relationship was a lot of verbal and emotional abuse and being made to feel very small. I became quite silent and comfortable in silence and felt like …
Gaslighting 2022 The Word of the Year
2022 Word of the year is Gaslighting. I have mixed feelings, it is certainly a charged word that is used in the everyday descriptions of toxic interpersonal relationships and …
What are you planting?
The other day I just lost it. When I say I lost it, I mean I locked myself in the upstairs bathroom and just sobbed. Have you ever done that? …