healing journey


  • To the Fiercest Mama Bear I Know…

    To the Fiercest Mama Bear I Know…

    There are some people in life who never really stop being your kid in your heart even if they aren’t actually yours. When I was 12 ½ years old, my cousin Lizzie was born. From the moment she came into this world, I loved her fiercely. Over the years, I helped raise her and her…


  • Painful Mother’s Days

    Painful Mother’s Days

    Mother’s Day has always carried tension for me. Not because I don’t love being a mother. I do. Deeply. But because becoming a mother forced me to confront the reality that I didn’t have the kind of mother every child deserves. And maybe you understand that feeling too. Maybe while everyone else posts smiling family…


  • The Body Can’t Go Where the Mind Hasn’t: Why We Train Our Daughters Like Their Lives Depend on It (Because One Day It Might)

    The Body Can’t Go Where the Mind Hasn’t: Why We Train Our Daughters Like Their Lives Depend on It (Because One Day It Might)

    There’s a quote I heard recently by Yates Crawford that hit me hard: “The body can’t go where the mind hasn’t.” Let that sink in. Because when it hits the fan… when your daughter is followed, grabbed, or targeted… it won’t be her fight-or-flight instinct that saves her. It’ll be whether her mind has already…


  • The Most Comforting Heartbreaking Verse in the Bible

    The Most Comforting Heartbreaking Verse in the Bible

    Written by Jennifer Greenberg One of the most common questions I hear from abuse victims is, “When is it OK to cut off my abuser?” And when they say abuser, they usually mean their father, mother, or spouse. In Christian circles, we’re often pressured to “forgive,” which many assume means reconciliation and the erasure of…