Hi everyone,
This week’s blog explores a concept that can be both comforting and complicated: post-traumatic growth.
When I first encountered this idea, part of me resisted it. Because trauma is not something to romanticize. It hurts. It disrupts. It changes us in ways we never asked for.
But post-traumatic growth isn’t about suggesting trauma was good.
It’s about recognizing what becomes possi...
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog is about perfectionism—the kind that looks like competence from the outside, but feels like constant pressure from within.
Recently, my aunt told a story about me at three years old, sitting on the stairs with a box of animal crackers. I carefully opened the box, took one out, closed the box, and only then handed it to her. When she asked for another, I repeated th...
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog is one of the most personal I’ve written in a while.
For much of my life, I believed there was something wrong with me because I froze in moments of acute stress. My mind would go blank. Later, the clarity would come—but not when I needed it most.
I now understand something I didn’t understand then:
Freeze is not failure. It’s protection.
It’s the nervous system bu...
My Peace in 50
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