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The tunnel I had to travel through was dark, but I found the light... writing has always been a safe space for my healing! I'm grateful!

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  When the lights go out… That loneliness and worry creeps in… That darkness fills my soul… The guilt, the shame, the pain and the doubt, slowly but surely makes their way out. The tears are so loud yet there is no noise about… You stare meaningless at the ones you love who are oblivious to your feelings of not being enough… Every night the same, as tears slowly fill your eyes and you try to put yourself to sleep to avoid this terrible feeling inside. As your mind races a million miles an hour The thousand voices in your head just get louder and louder! You are a failure! No one likes you! No one cares and they are all talking about you! The voices just seem so near!!! There’s only one way out… This I know without a doubt I’m looking at this little beautiful being sleeping peacefully at my side, He depends so much on his Mama, how unfair to him would it be if I died? I'm trying so hard my baby, Mama just hasn’t been feeling well lately. The pressures and struggles of life seem so m

My LUCKY 7 MUST DOs for when I feel a grief wave or an anxious tide coming...

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Have you ever found yourself curled up in a ball on the floor of your wardrobe crying in complete darkness for no reason at all? Have you ever been mid-chore and a scent, feel or image hits you and all of a sudden your shirt is drenched from your tears? Have you ever been halfway through your makeup routine for a social event and realised the amount of people that will be present and you start to hyperventilate? Have you ever sat in your car in the mall carpark for over an hour trying to build up the courage to open the door and go inside? Have you heard a song playing in the middle of the mall and you just burst into ugly tears and realise people are staring at you? You are not alone my friend! Its been a long road... I thought that the darkness of anxiety and depression was bad but after my 1st taste I soon realised that the pain of grief is pitch black! As I navigated through my new norm after losing MY person, I quickly started to realise that time didn't care about how I was f