She sat quietly at the kitchen table, her small fingers tracing the wood grain, eyes fixed on the patterns as if they held the answers she sought. Moments earlier, her innocent curiosity had been met ...

A few more steps and I would be home.  With blurred vision and blood gushing from my face,  my friend had left me to walk home from the hill moments after we rolled to the bottom.  She would limp her ...

There’s an old saying: "Good fences make good neighbors." But I think whoever said that never had to rebuild themselves from the rubble of trauma. Because when you’ve been hurt, a fence doesn’t feel l...

The chaos erupted in an instant—one moment, there was tense stillness, and the next, a blur of teeth, snarls, and frenzied movement shattered the fragile peace we had known. The air was thick with the...

My name is Anastasia and I am an Empath.  When in close proximity to people I absorb their energy and carry it.  When they are in a good place the energy is life giving, however, when the person we ar...

"Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen."   

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Imagine you're on a plane, and the flight attendant reminds you: "Put on your own oxygen mask before helping others." It’s a simple instruction, yet so many of us ignore it in our own lives. We push t...

"You will never forget a person who came to you with a torch in the dark."  M. Rose

The thing about Struggle is that everybody has it, everyone can see it and most people would rather run away fro...

Victor Frankl once said, “Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” It’s a beautiful truth, bu...