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I am the Mother of Pugs

Finding joy without guilt is one of the most radical things a survivor can do.

sometimes the safest and most meaningful connections are the ones we build ourselves.

This is how we break cycles. This is how we turn survival into connection. This is how hope spreads, thread by thread.

A tool to help with Anxiety

You don’t need permission to celebrate how far you’ve come.

Every year, I make my annual trip back to Middle-earth with my friends, and every year, I realize just how much I need it. This Lord of the Rings marathon isn’t just a movie weekend. It’s something we all genuinely look forward to. It’s a tradition rooted in comfort, familiarity, and connection. For a few days, time slows down. The outside world quiets. Middle-earth fills the room, and for a little while, everything feels steadier. My love for Tolkien’s world began when I was

These songs carried me through different chapters of my life, and through the writing of this book.

Healing is not linear.

The Mask She Wears was written during a time when therapy asked me to do the hardest thing: slow down and name what I had spent a lifetime avoiding. It came from sessions filled with unpacking, of emotions, memories, and survival instincts that formed long before I understood them. It came from learning the language of feelings I was never taught, and from sitting with a version of myself shaped by a time period that has quietly, but also loudly, influenced my life. I didn’t

When I first sat down to write Because of Jane , I didn’t begin with a plan. I had started and restarted this story a million times in different ways. But then I saw her sitting in the corner. I began with a presence. Her name was Jane. She had always been there, quiet, waiting on the edge of the bed or tucked into the corner of a room. She was the one thing that never asked me to explain myself. Never asked me to be brave. Never asked me to be quiet, either. So when the sto

There are moments when reading a memoir feels less like reading someone else’s story and more like being quietly given permission to tell your own. Reading If You Would Have Told Me was one of those moments for me. While John Stamos’s life story is not the same as mine, the courage it took for him to speak openly about some of the hardest parts of his life, with raw honesty and without hiding behind perfection, was incredibly powerful. There was something deeply beautiful in

A ‘Stranger Things’ Reflection on Ending Cycles Without Ending Yourself There are moments in stories when something breaks through the screen, when a character isn’t just speaking to another character, but to every person watching who has ever carried pain quietly and for far too long. The season finale of Stranger Things gave me one of those moments. When Eleven believes the only way to end the cycle of violence is to die with the Upside Down, Hopper’s response hit me in the