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 I remember scrolling on twitter one day and seeing a quote that said : " healing can be so hard when your inner child wants love, your teenage self wants revenge and your current self wants peace". This past week, this quote rang truer than I could of ever imagined. Life today is very different than a few months ago. I don't see grey anymore. The color is coming back and with that, comes a deep need to heal my inner child. This week was particularly hard because I've been asking God for clarity on a connection I desperately wanted to keep. A connection I knew deep down was not good for me. I talked myself into keeping the connection out of fear of abandonment. My reasons for keeping them around sounded logical but they weren't. I convinced myself that the discomfort will eventually go away. " We'll be good again " I said. Boy was I wrong! it was the complete opposite. I was triggered often. I was angry and I was uncomfortable the more they stuck ar...

" When you're trying to change your life for the better, things effortlessly adjusts to you. " - Gloria M. At the beginning of the month of February, I wrote on my calendar that this month will be a month of GRATITUDE . As the month went by, I found myself being grateful for the little things because God has been providing in ways I cannot explain.  Something amazing happened to me this past weekend and I thought I'd share.  It was my best friend's birthday, and we took her out of town for a well-deserved self care weekend. Weeks leading to the outing, I was having dreams of being belligerently drunk and I would wake up anxious. Sobriety is still new to me and I really wanted to honor my word to myself, not to drink that weekend. On Saturday, we took her to a restaurant. They ordered a bottle of wine, and I ordered a Moscow Mule (non alcoholic) it was really good. When the waiter found out about my best friend's birthday, he brought around complimentary shots....