Every child wants their mother—even when the relationship is complicated. I Got It From My Momma explores the Mother Wound, inherited patterns, grief, and self-reclamation. Through personal reflection, psychological insight, and compassionate truth-telling, this essay examines how family legacies shape us and how healing begins when we choose what to carry forward—and what ends with us.

What happens when Mother’s Day hurts more than it heals? This powerful reflection explores the unspoken grief of emotionally immature, absent, narcissistic, or wounding mothers—and the sacred work of learning to mother yourself with compassion, boundaries, truth, and repair.

We talk a lot about grieving death, but very little about grieving the life we thought we’d have: the loving parents, the safe relationships, the reciprocated effort, the dream that never materialized. This article names those invisible losses—family betrayal, self-sacrifice, emotional lifting—and offers a trauma-informed path toward self-trust, untethering, and gratitude. It’s an invitation to stop abandoning yourself for others, and to begin honoring the life that is still

Holding “Both/And”: The Sacred and Expansive Work of Healing What if healing wasn’t about getting over it… but exploring the complexity of holding pain while seeking and curating joy? This blog post is a gentle invitation into a more expansive way of healing — one that honors grief, disappointment, and heartbreak while also nurturing creativity, beauty, and aliveness. It’s about embracing the sacred “both/and” of our human experience. You’ll meet two women — Ava and Dina —