8 Things Survivors Need to Stop Apologizing For | Part 7 | Prioritizing Your Peace
Protecting your peace is not selfish. It’s wisdom your nervous system earned the hard way. What helps you protect your peace? Photo Credit: Unsplash Guest Post Disclaimer: This guest post is for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing shared here,...
8 Things Survivors Need to Stop Apologizing For | Part 5 | Needing Reassurance (video post)
Wanting reassurance doesn’t make you needy. Sometimes it means your nervous system is still learning safety. What helps you feel emotionally safe? Click Here to watch the video (opens in a new tab) Photo Credit: Unsplash Guest Post Disclaimer: This guest...
When You Love Someone Who Never Feels Good Enough: Understanding the Lasting Effects of Chronic Parental Criticism, Part 2
Loving an emotionally healthy partner Here is Part 1 of this series. If the adult child finds an emotionally healthy partner, they might feel uncomfortable because this person can challenge everything they learned about love. For the adult child, love was historically...
Whose Grave Was It Anyways?
My father died on June 6, 1998. My mother died on June 8, 2025, at the age of 89, 27 years after her husband almost to the day. On the day my father passed away, my mother, Gretchen, began digging a grave. Not literally, but metaphorically. For 27 years, she tried to...