What Are Your Triggers? Have you ever found yourself reacting to something small in a really big way? Maybe your child talks back and suddenly you’re overwhelmed with anger. Maybe someone doesn’t answer your text and you immediately feel rejected. Maybe criticism feels like an attack, even when it’s meant to help. Those moments are often more than emotions. They’re triggers. A trigger is an emotional response connected to a past experience, wound, fear, or unresolved pain. It

Imagine being excited about third-grade picture day. The night before, you have your dress laid out and ready to go. The only thing left is getting your hair done. Your mom tells you to grab the hair basket. You sit down, ready to be styled. But you’ve been outside all day playing, running, and having fun. Your hair is tangled, matted, and every pull of the comb feels like a battle. You’re squirming. Moving. Doing everything except sitting still. Then it happens. One hard

Healing is strange because sometimes you think you’ve moved on… until life touches a wound you thought finally closed. Some days I feel strong. Some days I feel exhausted. Some days I feel both at the same time. For a long time, I thought healing meant reaching a destination. I thought one day I would wake up completely whole, completely healed, and completely unaffected by the things I’ve survived. But healing doesn’t work that way. Healing comes in waves. It comes with grow

Sometimes I wonder who I would have been if life let me just be a girl. Not a caretaker. Not the strong one. Not the person everyone depended on. Just soft. Just free. Just young. I learned responsibility before I learned myself. And while I’m proud of the woman and mother I became, there’s still a younger version of me healing from growing up too fast. For as long as I can remember, survival came before softness. I became responsible early. I learned how to take care of peop