Rebuilding Identity After Life Changes
Big life changes have a way of taking your sense of self along with them. One day you know exactly who you are, and the next, after a divorce, a loss, the kids leaving, or a career ending, you look around and wonder who you even are now. The identity you built your life around […]
Grief & Loneliness After Loss
One of the hardest parts of losing someone is the loneliness that comes with it. It is a particular kind of loneliness, deep and aching, that can leave you feeling utterly alone even in a room full of people. If grief and loneliness have become constant companions since your loss, please know this is one […]
Why You Feel Empty After a Breakup
After a breakup, a lot of people expect to feel sad, and they do. But there is another feeling that catches many by surprise, a hollow, empty numbness, like something inside has been scooped out and there is just a void where the relationship used to be. If you feel empty after a breakup, not […]
Signs You’ve Lost Your Identity
Losing yourself rarely happens all at once. It happens slowly, so slowly you might not notice until one day you look in the mirror and do not recognize the person looking back. You have spent so long being what everyone needs, meeting expectations, and keeping life running that somewhere along the way, you lost track […]
How Grief Changes Your Life
Losing someone you love does not just hurt for a while and then fade back to normal. Grief changes you, and it changes your life, often in ways you never expected. The world looks different, you feel different, and the life you had is not quite the life you have anymore. If you are living […]
Healing Emotional Wounds After a Breakup
A breakup can feel like a physical injury. The ache in your chest, the way you cannot eat or sleep, the sense that something inside you has been torn. These are emotional wounds, and they are just as real as any physical hurt. If you are trying to heal emotional wounds after a breakup, please […]
Identity & Personal Growth
Who you are is not set in stone. It never was. The person you are today is different from who you were ten years ago, and different from who you will become. Yet so many of us cling to a fixed idea of ourselves and feel shaken when it starts to change. If you are […]
Journaling for Grief Healing
When you are grieving, the feelings can be so big and tangled that they feel impossible to hold. The pain swirls inside with nowhere to go, and talking about it is not always easy or available. This is where journaling can help. Grief journaling, simply writing out your thoughts and feelings about your loss, is […]
Healing Emotional Scars From a Relationship
Some relationships leave marks that stay with us long after they end. You can be months or even years past a breakup and still feel the effects, the difficulty trusting, the quickness to expect the worst, the wound that flares when something reminds you of what happened. These are emotional scars, and if you are […]
Identity Crisis & How to Fix It
There is a particular kind of lost that has nothing to do with maps. It is the feeling of waking up one day and not knowing who you are anymore. The roles that once defined you feel empty, the things that used to matter feel far away, and when you ask yourself what you actually […]