Tag: vision with words
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Finding Peace in Grief: A Journey Through Loss
There was a moment when I truly believed I had found my footing. Not because everything was resolved, but because something inside me finally felt safe enough to soften. The constant tension eased. My body stopped bracing. I wasn’t chasing peace anymore — I was living inside it. The garden and the kitchen weren’t the…
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Capturing Inner Truths Through Art and Reflection
One day, I was perusing reels and came across one that used an AI prompt….Lord knows these things usually turn out ridiculous on their best days, but I decided, why not? This is what it provided me, and when I asked it why it chose this particular image, I felt the description was quite accurate,…
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Menopause Is Not a Quiet Thing (Even If We’re Forced to Carry It Quietly)
Menopause isn’t quiet. It reshapes the body, silences you, and can destroy the life around you when pain, intimacy, and survival are misread as betrayal.
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2025: The Year I Learned How to Live Inside Myself
In February, my body crossed a line I didn’t know how to prepare for. Surgical menopause didn’t arrive as a single event; it arrived as a reckoning, layered with a complexity no one had fully warned me about. Looking back now, I realize I’d been moving through perimenopause for years, unknowingly carrying its subtle shifts,…
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When the Mask Cracks, the Heart Speaks
A quiet unraveling led me to parts of myself I’m only just beginning to meet. This piece is for the parts we’ve silenced, the children we’re raising, and the versions of ourselves we’re still becoming. I used to think I was managing.Not thriving, maybe, but coping.Functioning. I kept routines in place like scaffolding, each task,…
Perfectly Imperfect 