Many women walk through life carrying pain that was never theirs to carry. The truth is this: it was never your fault. Yet somehow we take the blame. We internalize the hurt. We replay the moments in our minds trying to figure out what we  could have done differently. As women, we often shoulder the responsibility for other people's brokenness because it feels like the only way to cope. But in doing so, we slowly begin to shrink. We shrink our voices.  We shrink our expectati

There was a time when I thought self-care was selfish because I was a mom with kids that needed me and a wife that had to ensure i was available to my husband. I believed being strong meant pushing through. I believed being needed meant being valuable. I believed resting meant I was falling behind. But what I didn’t realize was that constantly neglecting myself was quietly delaying my healing. When you grow up carrying emotional wounds especially from rejection, abandonment,

There was a time in my life when I didn’t truly know who I was. Not because I lacked ambition. Not because I lacked strength. But because I lacked identity. Feelings of unworthiness would overwhelmed me. I felt un-loved so extremely that isolation became the norm in my life. It was easy to push people away because I never felt good enough for them anyway. So before they hurt me, I find reasons to walk away. Growing up without the presence of a father or having one who was emo