This may be a hard pill to swallow for some—even you, if you find yourself in this space—but healing isn’t always a shared experience. Healing looks and feels differently for everyone. Every situation is different. Every coping style is different. Everything is different. The one thing that stays the same? You don’t owe anyone access…
If I could sit my younger self down and tell her three things, this would be one of them. One of the clearest lessons I learned during that strange, still season of “quarantwenty‑twenty” was this: You do not have to be a kind of woman. Every woman deserves the space to be exactly who she is…
When I first started writing, I wasn’t a mother yet. I was just a woman with a voice, a dream, and a growing audience. And then, right as my work began to take shape in the world, I found out I was going to be a mommy. By the time the pandemic hit, my daughter…
I don’t talk about my beliefs often because people can be reckless with their opinions. And I’m finally at a place in my life where I don’t argue with ignorance. Still, I also refuse to sit quietly while someone disrespects the God who has carried me through every season of my life. Yes, we are…