Category: Fulfilling life
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Happy Nude Year!
Last year I was very intentional about connecting to myself and my body, after years of feeling shame for living in this flesh-suit. A few ways I did that was: seeing a pelvic health therapist, having more open communication with my partner, doing a photoshoot in my underwear, and visiting a nudist resort, twice. Going…
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Is It My Fault? Or Is It the Church’s Fault?
Is my religious trauma my fault, or is it the church’s fault? Did I indoctrinate myself? After all, I enjoyed going to church as a child, and no one forced me to go to church as an adult. No one forced me to go to a bible school, work for a ministry, or use my…
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What Happened When I Listened to the Church About Purity.
tw: sexual abuse Oh what I wish I could tell my past self- that what happened to you does not mean you’re tainted. You are not dirty. You are not impure. I drew this picture in 2014 a few days after being in a circumstance that I didn’t know how to process. A girl balled…
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Life Coaching for Religious Recovery and Spiritual Abuse.
I was three sessions deep into my counseling appointments, each time thinking I would come out cured and never needing help again, only to find myself in a bigger mess than when I came in. I started therapy in the hopes that it would help lift my overwhelming burden, that I was not being authentic,…
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Filter The Voices.
I know we are well into February and I’m not trying to bring up things from the past to trigger any sort of PTSD but… remember 2020? LOL. Of course you do. It will be a year for the books that’s for certain. Thank God it’s over, right? Because 2021 will definitely NOT have any…