This old programming runs on an endless search for validation. The belief that I must keep proving, striving, and shaping myself in order to survive…

I know how this can sound. Talking about happiness as a beauty practice can feel cliché, or even insensitive. I have a relationship with depression, so I understand…

Then the nuance found me and disrupted everything. I realized that despite the initial success, the changes were not sticking in a lasting, meaningful way. I struggled to stay…

They’re usually pointing me toward a part of myself that got stuck in rejection or shame. A younger part that didn’t feel seen, chosen, or safe. Instead of pushing…

Being self-aware hasn’t always been kind to me. For a long time, it kept me stuck in my head, anxious, intellectualizing, dissociating, ruminating. I would analyze, plan…

For most of my life, I believed that change required pushing harder, being different, being “fixed.” I thought something inside me, or in others…