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Looking Back: How Acceptance Changed Everything
A personal reflection on parenting, healing, and supporting a child’s identity with love, safety, and acceptance.
When ADHD Met PTSD: How Trauma Rewired My Brain and How Understanding That Saved Me
Content note: This piece discusses suicidal ideation and trauma. If you’re struggling, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Resources are at the end. For 34 years, I lived with ADHD, and never once needed mental health services. I’d worked through the front line during COVID, wards, diabetes clinics, and mental health services. Thirty-hour weeks, raising
When the Training Becomes Personal
When the Training Becomes Personal December 28, 2025 I’ve just completed the Narcissistic Abuse Recovery training, and it was tougher than expected. I began to deepen my understanding of supporting others through this. Facing how deeply it resonated with my own experiences required absolute honesty, humility, and resilience. This process reinforced a critical point: recovery
At 34, Everything Changed
At 34, Everything Changed December 15, 2025 The Mother They Created When They Failed My Children At 34, I lost everything. Not my job—work remained my only safe haven, the one place that still made sense when nothing else did. What I lost was far more fundamental. I lost my belief that people do the
And Then She Was Gone
After reliving abuse to 19 officers, I found one who listened—Jackie from Professional Standards—only to lose that refuge as systemic failures and misconduct put children and truth at risk. — Sister Laura
