Trauma-Informed, Unpolished & Unapologetic: Reflections from an Almost Social Worker
For the truths that outgrow the roles they were handed.
self-love
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When the Floodgates Finaly Gave
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≻: When the Floodgates Finaly GaveThe floodgates I’ve been holding closed for nearly thirty years finally broke away, leaving chaos and ruin in their wake.…
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What It Means to Care This Much: Part 2
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≻: What It Means to Care This Much: Part 2I thought the tightness in my chest would ease once I slept, but it followed me into today — quieter,…
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What It Means to Care This Much
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≻: What It Means to Care This MuchToday pulled me into a space I wasn’t expecting — the kind of space where your heart reacts before your…
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The Things I Thought I’d Grow Into
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≻: The Things I Thought I’d Grow IntoWhen you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? When I was five, I wanted…
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Building Something Better for Them
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≻: Building Something Better for ThemThere’s a version of our story people like to tell — the one where he stepped into my life at…
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The Work People Don’t See
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≻: The Work People Don’t SeeWhat’s something most people don’t understand? Most people don’t understand how much of someone’s growth happens in silence. They see…
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Weather, But Make it A Mood
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≻: Weather, But Make it A MoodWhat is your favorite type of weather? (because the forecast really does depend on which version of me woke up…
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Coming Home to Myself
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≻: Coming Home to MyselfI’m Waking Up I keep saying it lately, almost without realizing it: I’m waking up. Not in some dramatic, reinvent‑your‑life…
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The Voice I’m Choosing
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≻: The Voice I’m ChoosingA gentle reclamation of a voice that finally feels like mine; choosing differently so the echoes end with me. I’m…
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Feral Squirrel Energy
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≻: Feral Squirrel EnergyWhich animal would you compare yourself to and why? Probably a feral squirrel. Not the cute, fluffy kind that politely…
