...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....

Some of you may have seen a blog post a while ago where I wrote about getting 2 free dollhouses...well, I finally got started on this big...

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 in therapy I went to a place I wasn't planning to go. A place that seemed so far away and yet so similar to my current situation. A few of you may remember me from that time...

Around a year ago in the healing work I was doing I came up with the idea that I wanted to build a dollhouse for the child inside of me...

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...

It was just such a straight out-of-the-blue question that even if something was or had happened that I remembered, I don't think I'd have

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...

And it reminds that 16 year old part of me of how it used to be at that age. Yes, my parents owned the property but I had no space to...

The other day I realized that I have figured out what my dream kitchen and living room would look like to some degree but I've never really thought about my bedroom. I took some time to think about it and to ponder how I'd like for it to be. I remembered the pictures I created with AI, my favorite one which you can see below...

Last week someone sent me these words when I needed to hear them because I have been feeling so pressured to "fit in a box" (which...

Tonight I decided that I want to make tomato soup and a toasted cheese sandwich for supper. I left the room to go to my locker in the laundry room to get some tea bags. I heard my name and assumed my sandwich was about to burn and tried to push my tired body to go a little faster. When I reentered the kitchen the lady said she had removed the pan with my sandwich off the burner because she thought that it was burning.