After growing up in a home where personal privacy was taken to an abusive extreme, my personal growth and healing is currently sending me in the opposite direction.

Please bear with the oversharing here. I have a strong feeling that the healthy version is somewhere in the middle.

Future goal!!!

In the last year of my mom’s life, my dad told not to tell her siblings that she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. She held it from them for a few months and it sunk her emotionally. 

This was just one of the many “last ways” he abused her in her final year.

I’m sad that I wasn’t more proactive for her all those years. I did get into verbal battles with my dad as a teen, but still feel like I could have done so much more for mom. This instilled a very strong fear of “freezing” when faced with injustice, bullying, overall pushy behaviors from others.  

Today I’m thankful to be on the path to learning how to process confrontation, and just plain abusive pressures from others.

I am worth fixing, I am worth the time it takes to truly heal, and I am worth the self-care needed to learn how to live a healthy life. 

If this resonates with even one of my readers, then I couldn’t ask for anything more.  

Live, Laugh, Love with everything you’ve got while you still can! 💜✨ Thank you so much for stopping by. I truly appreciated and value you all.