Day 65 - I’ve been thinking about resilience today. Not the motivational poster version. The real kind. The kind that happens when life knocks you flat and you slowly, stubbornly rebuild yourself anyway. The past year tried to...
Day 64 - Today the world felt bigger. Not physically. Mentally. For a long time my brain has been operating inside a very narrow set of concerns: safety, healing, processing what happened, navigating the legal aftermath. Necessary things....
Day 63 - There’s a part of my personality that I haven’t felt in a long time. The dangerous part. Not dangerous in the destructive sense. Dangerous in the sense of curiosity, intelligence, and refusal to shrink. The...
Day 62 - Today I noticed something surprising. The weight I’ve been carrying for the past year felt lighter. Not gone. But lighter. If you’ve never lived through something traumatic, it’s hard to explain how physical emotional weight...
Day 61 - Something has been happening lately that I don’t fully know how to describe yet. It’s not dramatic. There’s no cinematic music playing in the background. No thunderclap realization where everything suddenly makes sense. It’s quieter...
Day 60 - Today felt like forward motion. Nothing dramatic happened. But something inside me feels like it’s starting to move again. For months my life has been focused on stabilizing. Healing. Processing everything that happened. Necessary work....
Day 59 - This morning I paused in front of the mirror longer than usual. Not in a critical way. More like studying someone I’m still getting to know. Transition is a strange experience because your relationship with...
Day 58 - Something unexpected showed up today. Mischief. Not chaos. Not recklessness. Just that playful little spark that used to live somewhere in the center of my personality. The part of me that notices strange things about...
Day 57 - Strength used to mean something different to me. Before the past year, I probably would’ve described strength as resilience. Determination. The ability to push forward no matter what. Those things still matter. But now strength...
Day 56 - I noticed something about myself today. Not something dramatic. Just a quiet observation that landed somewhere in my chest and stayed there for a while. I’m not the same person I was a year ago....