...brokeness doesn't feel beautiful, but beauty can come out of it, even if it just makes us a more understanding and compassionate person..

I needed something to fill the space next to the stove so I decided a custom hutch was to order. I forgot to take pictures of the...

My inner child has really been wanting a safe place to play and so I've been focusing on that the last several days as I had the energy....

Yesterday was the third time that I spent time with Rose, my therapy horse. She is brown all over with a big round belly. Last week when...

If you have been following my story lately you may have heard that I was in the shelter for 7 months...it really took me for a loop...

TW: Child Sexual Abuse I haven't been writing much lately. I've been wanting to but the words inside my head are just all jumbled and my...

On Sunday night I had an individual slip into my DMs implying that she's doing well but that I'm not because I'm not trying hard enough....

Last night I was able to release just a little bit more grief and pain from how my abusive employers treated me...it is still such a...

In February I felt that maybe I'd be out of the shelter by the end of the month. (But that was false)I planned that I would spend March...

Today I was thinking about that question. A few days ago I was asked when the exhaustion started. When I first felt it.

Warning: this is a really raw post. Read at your own risk...

See the little girl? She's very young. Maybe 2 or 3 years old. She feels so bewildered and alone. The people who should be nurturing her...

This past weekend was horrible. I had things I wanted to do but I didn't get any of it done... Friday I went to work and took a picture...

Edit: I had taken this down because I was unsure whether I really should post it but decided to repost it in its rawness...

Jesus, can I come home? I'm so tired. I just want to be free. Free from it all... And I want a hug. A big one. A long one. A comforting one.

*If you would like a print of this piece it is available for sale on my website under the Painful Paintings tab... (I wrote this piece a...

Graduating from school at 8th grade, the future looked extremely dark. All I could see was that there would now be no escape from my parents

And I keep hearing my dad's voice "It's just all in your head!" A phrase I often heard when I wasn't feeling well....

If anger consisted of gooey globs, I'd be flinging it at quite a number of people right now. And...I guess I wasn't expecting to receive s

Pretty gruesome, isn't it? I don't know what color pain is but I know how it feels. It is heavy. It hurts. Sometimes...