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There comes a moment, sometimes quiet, sometimes shattering, when you realize you’re no longer willing to shrink for people stay stuck. Yesterday I had an awakening where I said, “No more.”
That moment is the birth of the Purposeful Warrior…
There is a moment grief finds you —
not with fanfare, not with warning —
but with a silence so loud, it rattles the very walls of your soul.
Grief isn’t just sadness.
It’s the way the sunlight looks different.…
It wasn’t fiction. It wasn’t exaggerated.
It was real.
The phone calls.
The breathing.
The threat whispered as if it belonged there.
His name was Donald.
And yes–he meant every word.
But here’s the thing: I survived him.
Not just …
…a woman who weaves grief, truth and tenderness into every page and every pause. I am building a sacred space for others because I know what it means to sith with sorrow. Not just brush against it —sit with …
I didn’t storm out. I didn’t make a scene. I just left—and I didn’t look back.
There’s a particular kind of loneliness that comes from being surrounded by people and still feeling unseen. I was in a group of women …
Life, in its overall form, is not cruel, and testing us is done more to reveal something in us that we did not know was there.
We summon up strengths we did not know we had and set boundaries we …
Last weekend, I had a moment of insanity, as I call it. I went down the rabbit hole, terrified of needing help at a particular time or event and who would help.
A friend shared her car breakdown story with …
Ah yes, the ever-helpful “shouldn’t you be over this by now?” brigade. As if grief is some kind of flu you just shake off after a few weeks of rest and hydration.
Here’s the thing—grief doesn’t come with a deadline. …
I did fall off the writing wagon and here we are with the end of the year in sight. I know I do need to climb back on and grab the reins again.
It has been a rather down …
Our writing class was given an assignment for the past week and the prompt was “It’s About Time”. I took a poetic license and changed my title here. I am proud of this piece, I received great feedback on it …