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I have wanted this life since I was little… I just didn’t know what I would have to go through—or who I would have to become—to get here. The Dream As a little girl, if you would have asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was simple and quick: a lawyer. To what capacity? I was never sure. I just knew I wanted to argue—and I wanted to do something I was good at. As time went on, that vision began to shift. I went from wanting to argue and prove myself… to wan

A reflection on therapy, unlearning survival, grieving the little girl I was, and discovering that God never left me on the floor. Therapy has been asking me to do something I’ve avoided my entire life: stay. Stay with my feelings. Stay with my body. Stay with me —without hiding behind an identity that feels safer to speak through. In one session, I caught myself referring to my experiences in the third person, like I always do. Creating distance. Protecting myself. And my th

Before You Read Some letters aren’t written from the finish line — they’re written in the middle, when the healing is half-formed, when you’re still afraid, when the past still pulls at you. These three letters were written from right here , in the tension between who I’ve been and who I’m becoming: — one to the version of me who still shrinks to survive, — one from God to the girl who keeps thinking she’s too broken to stand tall, — and one from the “becoming me” — the woman

When correction doesn’t sound gentle, but comes from love anyway Proverbs 27:6 — “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” Hebrews 12:11 — “No discipline seems pleasant at the time… but later it produces peace.” Galatians 6:1 —“ Restore one another in a spirit of gentleness.” The Lesson I Didn’t Want to Learn There are moments that change us... that don’t look holy while they’re happening. They don’t come in worship services, or altar c

I didn’t rebuild my life in a warm room surrounded by support. I rebuilt it in the front seat of my car. It was late. The kind of late where the sky feels heavy and the world goes quiet. I remember the dim glow of the streetlight above me, flickering like it was undecided about its own purpose. I leaned my seat back, jacket balled up as a pillow, the air thick with the scent of old takeout and my own exhaustion. Not just tired — worn. That’s where everything caught up to me.

Thank You For... Thank You for the breaking that made room for becoming. Thank You for loneliness that taught me You were never gone. Thank You for the unknown, where my control unraveled and Your peace waited. Thank You for the doors that closed so I could learn to stop knocking. Thank You for the silence that asked me to listen deeper. Thank You for the love I lost - it showed me what was never mine to keep. Thank You got the growing pains that shaped me into someone new. T

Before You Read There's a healing power in the words we never say out loud - the ones that live in the quiet spaces between who we are, and who we're becoming. This week I decided to write three letters I'll never send: one to the version of me who knew no peace, one from God's perspective to that wounded girl, and one that closes the story - the version of me that found purpose in pain. These letters are an act of release. A way to honor what was, acknowledge what is, and ma

When His stillness feels heavy, and His silence has something to say Psalm 46:10 — “Be still, and know that I am God.” Isaiah 30:15 — “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.” 1 Kings 19:11–13 — “And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.” The Silence That Comes With Disobedience Nobody talks about the silence — the kind that doesn’t come from distance, but from disob

The heart behind Just Write. I stopped running from my story - and started writing it. Just Write became the space where I learned to see God in the middle of my healing, not just at the end of it. Every word you read holds pieces of pain, peace, and purpose - not to be perfect, but to be honest. It's where I let my faith and feeling exist in the same breath, and finally made peace with the process.