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….

Day 55 – For the first time in a long while, I thought about the future today. Not in a fearful way. In an open way. For months the future has felt abstract. Hard to imagine. My brain…

Day 54 – I think creativity might be returning. Not fully. But in little flashes. This afternoon I had the sudden urge to write something that wasn’t about healing or trauma or survival. Just writing for the sake…

Day 53 – Today my brain felt bigger. That might sound like a strange way to describe a day, but it’s the closest word I can find. For months my mind has been very focused on a narrow…

Day 52 – Something small but interesting happened today. I caught myself being curious again. Not about trauma. Not about the case. Not about survival or safety or the thousand calculations my brain has been running for the…

Day 51 – Healing has a middle phase that nobody talks about. The beginning is dramatic. Everything hurts. Everything feels overwhelming. Survival mode is loud and constant. The end, theoretically, is peaceful. Closure. Resolution. A sense that the…