It’s been exactly a year since I began my healing journey. It's been a long ride with lots of twists, turns, and growth, and guess what? I am excited to introduce you to the final pages of the Traumatic Breakup chapter of my story! I can write this from a place of forgiveness and acceptance because I was able to truly move on. The traumatic aspect of the breakup At the end of our relationship, I blamed myself. I have an incredibly big heart, and I gave every ounce of love, respect, and kindness I had to my ex. If you’d read my journals through those three years, even if I was mad at him, ...
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This Week Made My Heart Sing
Wow, Sunday already! I don’t understand how March felt like it took two years to pass, but September and October flew by in under a week. Weird, huh? Gratitude for the week This week, I was thankful for all the support I received on my posts about my insecurities. I was genuinely surprised by all the kindness, wisdom, and advice shared on both my blog and on Instagram. Complete strangers sent messages or left comments talking about how much they could relate and how brave they thought I was, which was super encouraging. Thank you so much for that. I was having serious jitters about being ...
Three Titles in My October Reading List
Last month, the books on my reading list included Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough, Shel Silverstein’s The Missing Piece, and Ready to Heal – Breaking Free of Addictive Relationships by Kelly McDaniel. September book reviews Let’s start with Too Much and Never Enough. The book left me feeling quite a few opposing emotions. There were times that I almost felt bad for Donald Trump. Almost. It was his older brother Fred (Mary’s father) that really succumbed to the very privileged but unfortunate circumstance that he could not control; being born into the Trump family. Donald ...
