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Refusing to Let Grief Be Weaponized
There is a quiet, heavy sanctity that belongs to deep grief. When you are navigating the raw landscape of losing a mother—living through those fragile first weeks where the loss is fresh and the arrival of her ashes brings a stark, undeniable finality—your entire system demands stillness. It requires room to breathe, space to feel…
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Reclaiming Your Narrative: Finding Strength in Vulnerability
Sometimes, the most vibrant thing you can do for yourself is to draw a hard line in the sand. Life is entirely too short to waste energy on unwanted noise. June is my official declaration of independence—owning my greatness, honoring my mom, and locking the door on the past for good.
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Moving Forward from the Void
Embracing Life’s New Chapter The Reality of the Void: When Absence Thinks It’s a Superpower It is a beautiful morning here in Tucson. I put some light jazz on the Echo while I sit on the patio this morning before work, enjoying my morning coffee before most of the world wakes up. There is a…
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Reclaiming Life: Questions After Loss
Greetings my lovely feral, dark and bright ones, Life certainly has a way of taking us down or lifting us up, doesn’t it? Sometimes it does both at the exact same time, leaving you gasping for air in the middle. To be completely honest, this month has been brutal, and I’m just glad it’s about…
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Facing Loss: Lessons from _The Sheep Detectives_
A simple night out at the movies completely caught me off guard. From a profound line on screen to a sterile phone call from a funeral director, today forced me to look at the massive canyon between a breathing, loving heart and a cold, calculating void. This is about choosing the light, honoring my mom,…
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Navigating The In Between: A Journey Through Grief
A raw, vulgar, and brutally honest look at processing a 38-year radioactive family cycle, letting go of impossible dreams, and finally breaking free to live fully.
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Rebuilding Life After Loss: A Journey of Resilience
On May 4th, my world cracked open. This is my raw, first-person manifesto on navigating immediate grief, facing physical depletion, breaking the cycle of isolation, and choosing a radical path toward health and community.
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Sifting the Wreckage: The Fairytale Legacy I Refuse to Inherit
True balance isn’t wiping away the tears and pretending the storm didn’t happen, nor is it forgetting the sunshine. It is having the courage to hold both—the beautiful, the bad, and the ugly—and knowing that the love was real even when it was pure hell.” In my latest post, I am sifting through the wreckage…
