A living journal exploring the tender space between who we’ve been and who we’re becoming — through motherhood, self-reclamation, healing and the slow return to our own truth.
At a time when the world speeds up, I’ve felt a quiet pull in the opposite direction — toward slowing down, softening and closing this year with more presence, more pleasure and a gentler rhythm.
Best Books I Read This Year and The Stories That Stayed with Me
A curated year-end reading list featuring the most memorable books I read in 2025 — from cozy escapes to intense, transformative stories. A gentle roundup for women who love slow living, reflection and meaningful reads.
A reflection on how our rebuilding, choosing, and becoming quietly shapes what our children will one day stand on — not through instruction, but through presence, truth and lived experience.
Chapter 4: We don’t always notice the slow erosion—of self, of spirit, of truth—when we stay somewhere we’ve long outgrown. This piece explores the quiet, painful cost of staying too long.
Chapter 3: We don’t cling to what feels good — we cling to what feels familiar. A reflection on unconscious reenactment in love and how the past often repeats until we heal.
Chapter 2: A poem for the woman whose heart is closed, whose body no longer reaches for touch. A quiet reminder that numbness is not failure — it’s wisdom. And beneath it all, you are still whole.
Season 1 Intro: A new series on the quiet reckoning with old wounds, patterns of self-abandonment and the mirrors that show us where we still struggle to choose ourselves.
