As a therapist, I see this truth so often. Many who come to me feel broken, ashamed, or afraid of what they’re experiencing but when we slow down, there’s usually a deeper story unfolding. I think labeling people with disorders or just calling them crazy can be harmful, even in professional settings, some doctors tend to label patients and put the…[Read more]

since i had my daughter i saw 1st hand what its rlly like to bring some1 2 another wurld i swear when she first got here she was just trying to figure out if it was all rlly there and if she was real nothin like it

Even with all the effort to destigma mental illness, ppl still cant handle being sad. Like, that’s part of the ride, we gotta go thru it sometimes…. Thats how we get strong. Awakening to new stuff is rough, no 1 said this was easy, but it is worth it….

After my husband’s death, which nobody expected, I fell apart completely. I didn’t realize how much of my identity was wrapped up in my life with him. I felt like a zombie, a shell of a person.. half my spirit was on the other side.. But I did eventually recover. Can’t say I’ll ever get over it, but I can live past it now. I had to learn that time…[Read more]

When my youngest was born, I remember holding him in that half-sleep daze at 3am and just feeling that he wasn’t all here yet. His eyes would scan the room like he was still seeing something I couldn’t. That liminal space… it felt holy.

Years later, I took care of my grandmother as she was passing. She had Alzheimer’s, and some days she’d a…[Read more]

I wish more people understood that spiritual awakening doesn’t always look graceful, it can look like panic attacks, dissociation, crying for no reason, thinking you’re going crazy. I was that person. And I had no language for it, no elder, no guide. Just fear and isolation and that awful feeling like something was breaking open inside me and I d…[Read more]

omg yes yes yes all of this 🙏💔

when i had my first big awakening (aka emotional breakdown slash cosmic upgrade 🌀✨) i thought i was legit going crazy. i was having visions during dreams, i’d feel energy in my body that wasn’t “mine,” and i kept hearing this ringing in my ears like someone was trying to talk to me but not with words?? and the wor…[Read more]

That is a lot to deal with, I’m sorry you had to go through all that! Along with this board, I’m eventually going to be creating a board specifically related to recovery from trauma. It will also be covered in depth in my alchemy book. Trauma doesn’t have to be a life sentence, and we can transmute it into a strength with a lot of work. The Netism…[Read more]