Every day you have a chance to decide what you want to do with your life. You wake up and have to decide how you want to move through your world. You can easily choose to be a victim, choose to follow the negative emotions you have always known and stay stagnant. You can choose… Read more: Choosing Between Victim or Survivor

I look back over my life, and the people I know who have suffered from varying degrees of mental health issues. I am stuck wondering what the heck is wrong with the system that is supposed to be there to help us. My brother is (was) insanely amazing. He also spent his entire life trying… Read more: Mental Health Adventures

Being neurodivergent means learning how to find your center… and then fighting like hell to stay there. Every day, I try to be the best version of myself. I surround myself with people who share my values, and I walk away from anyone who believes they’re “better than” someone else. No one has more value… Read more: What Do You Do When someone Triggers you?

This piece comes from a recent experience where my character, intentions, and behavior were questioned during a time when I was not fully myself.I experienced an episode where I lost control in a way that is not typical for me. I do not remember much of what happened and have had to rely on what… Read more: When Character Is Questioned

I’ll be pausing all story submissions until after Memorial Day 2026. This space is meant to center individual voices and lived experiences without outside interpretation or assumption. I want to make sure that remains clear and protected. During this time, I encourage anyone who has a story to share to take that step when they… Read more: Holding Space, Intentionally

I always have felt like I needed to stand up for the people who cannot articulate for themselves. My parents taught me to be a savior, no matter the cost to me. I have put myself at risk far more than anyone really knows. I have always done things with the best intentions. None of… Read more: Standing Up For Myself

It’s hard to know who to trust in a world filled with noise, misinformation, and constantly shifting realities. At times, even my own voice feels distant when I lose connection with my intuition. There are moments when everything blurs—time, events, clarity. I find myself trying to piece things together while still moving forward. I trust… Read more: Misplaced Trust

Boundaries are one of the most difficult things you have to set in your life for all relationships. I never realized how difficult it is to have people who you can truly be yourself around. The people who you can trust when times are hard. The people who have your back no matter what. The… Read more: Setting And Keeping Boundaries

My male friend and who I thought was my partner, introduced me to his mother. I knew the two of them were going through a lot at the same time. I hate seeing people suffer. Having the amount of empathy I have, I don’t have it in me, not to give people the time and… Read more: When is it Enough?

Every single day, living with mental health issues is challenging. You can think you are doing all the right things and nothing seems like it is going to get better. Nothing really changes until you start to admit that you were wrong. You treated people in ways they never deserved. You took your anger out… Read more: Living with Neurodivergence Daily

These past few weeks has been full of a lot of crazy stuff I am not able to get into detail over. Between having to use the last of my money to help people who genuinely needed it to get themselves out of dangerous situations, and I don’t ask for a thing in return.Not a… Read more: Breaking Ties

A neurodivergent mother reflects on using control, structure, and boundaries to regulate her mind and create stability—for herself and her child. Through honest self-awareness, she confronts past patterns of enmeshment, learns to hold her own emotions, and chooses growth over perfection to become a safer, more present parent.

There are moments where the mind doesn’t slow down. Thoughts begin looping—revisiting memories, questioning timelines, analyzing interactions, and trying to make sense of experiences that never followed a clear or predictable path. What becomes most overwhelming in these moments is not just the memories themselves, but how others interpret them. Many people form opinions based… Read more: Trying to Control the Spiral

Every person lives inside their own story. It’s not until you realize how much influence you have on other people that you start to see the patterns in your own life. When you’re angry, when you’re running on autopilot, you stop being present. You lose awareness of how your words land, how your actions ripple.… Read more: Do you ever really know someone?

I spent most of my life fighting for a version of life I wasn’t even sure was real. Survival mode was all I knew. Even when I got a glimpse of something better, something calmer, I sabotaged it. I invited in what felt familiar. Chaos. Struggle. Someone who mirrored the life I had been trying… Read more: Realizing What Life Should Be

My next tattoo will be the chakras from my book cover. Not because they look beautiful—but because of what they represent. Balance. Something that sounds simple until you actually try to live it. It’s one of the most important—and most difficult—things a person can achieve. There will always be people, situations, and emotions that try… Read more: A Reminder to Return to Center

You can spend decades with someone who never truly sees you.Then you meet someone who was never supposed to go deeper than the surface… and somehow they see through every wall you built just to survive. Even if they never really got to know you fully, they still saw you.Because sometimes two people mirror each… Read more: The Ones Who See You

Today wasn’t about art. It was about building the system that makes everything else possible—and for the first time in my life, I actually feel good about how everything is set up behind the scenes. I’ve spent years around money, watching how businesses run behind the scenes. I worked in accounting for a company where… Read more: Building It Right

A reflection on ego, abuse, and identity, this piece explores the difference between confidence and control, and the journey of learning to trust yourself after a lifetime of being made to feel like you were never enough.

I was born into a world shaped by neurodivergence. I was raised to connect with people, read the room, and adjust myself in ways many people never have to learn. My mother was never formally diagnosed, but after she passed, I learned that many people in her family shared similar traits. Knowing that my granddaddy… Read more: Every Day Surrounded by Neurodivergence

A Day Of Silence I don’t usually take a day to simply rest and allow my nervous system to recover after a high-intensity situation. Normally I keep moving, keep working, and keep pushing forward. Today I chose to do something different. I decided to take advantage of the new focus settings I programmed into my… Read more: A Day Of Silence

Yesterday, while working on Auntie M’s Advocacy Project, the site was unexpectedly suspended by an automated system. No warning. No explanation. Just gone. It turns out the platform’s automated filters flagged the project as potential spam. When a site is brand new and pages are being created quickly, the system sometimes assumes something suspicious is… Read more: Unexpectedly Suspended

One of the most important questions someone I loved ever asked me was simple. “Do you believe what I told you happened to me really happened? That these are my memories?” I told him yes. Because I do. When someone shares their memories of pain or trauma, my job is not to interrogate them. It… Read more: Belief Without Surrender

The Moment a Victim Becomes a Survivor There is a pattern that exists in many abusive relationships. It begins with someone who knows how to control a room. Someone who understands how to manipulate sympathy, avoid accountability, and shift blame when things go wrong. A person who can present themselves as misunderstood or wounded while… Read more: The Moment a Victim Becomes a Survivor

I met someone during one of the most vulnerable periods of my life. I believed I was helping a person who was struggling, someone who needed stability and compassion while trying to heal. Looking back, I can see how easily vulnerability can be exploited. At the time, this person was focused on recovering traumatic memories… Read more: When Compassion Becomes Vulnerability