Gratitude Is The Blueprint

Unraveling Self-Abandonment

"...the unfortunate side of having an abandonment wound that started pretty much at birth is that you learn to Self abandon—I began losing myself in my parents from a very very early age. Becoming whoever they needed to me to be, whoever they wanted me to be so that I would get breadcrumbs..."

Gratitude Is The Blueprint

"...in 2015, when I left, it was a very abusive situation, the lawyer knew it was abusive —so much so that he told me to not put my address on the documents so that whenever my ex husband signed them he wouldn't see my new address. A few weeks after I got moved & settled, I get a text message from my ex saying 'I know where you're at'..."

You Are The Project

"...I wanted to be safe, I wanted to survive, I wanted to breathe, I wanted to understand & feel my laughter, I wanted to experience my voice, and so in my mind the safest thing at 5 years old was to a boy..."

I See Dead People

"...it's like being in a room with a thousand people except nobody leaves and more just keep coming in, and that's how many I'm seeing all the time—everyday/everywhere I go I see them..."

Compassion on the Road

"...I'm going to figure a way to never ever let that happen again, that was not the person I wanted to be—in fact, I as an acupuncturist know what I was doing was toxic to body..."