Healing & Growth
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Making Decisions When You Feel Stuck
“It is not about making a good or bad decision. It is also not about making the right decision. We never know how our lives would have turned out if we had made a different decision. It simply makes it the decision you need to take at that very moment to be congruent with who you are and what you want in life.”
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Mental Health Awareness: What I Wish You Understood About Depression
Ever shared your pain and felt judged instead of supported? This raw reflection on depression, loneliness, and misunderstanding reveals what many people battling mental health wish their friends and family knew ,and how you can truly help.
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Healing the trauma of childhood sexual abuse
Healing from childhood sexual abuse is not a straight line. It’s not a checklist or a timeline you can pin on your wall and tick off as you go. For many of us, it takes decades, if not a lifetime to unravel the mess that trauma left behind. The abuse may be in the past, but the echoes live on. What’s often harder to shake than the memories are the behaviours we learnt during the trauma. Survival mechanisms. Coping patterns. The way we dissociate, people-please, freeze under pressure, or struggle to trust. Especially when the abuse went on for a long time, those behaviours can feel like part of who…
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Living with Anxiety: What Helped Me Find Peace
Anxiety once ruled my world. The spirals, the insomnia, the constant knot in my stomach. I know the feeling of drowning in a sea of thoughts. But I'm here to say: it gets better. Here's what helped me manage anxiety when it felt like nothing would.