Welcome, reader! I’m glad to see you.

I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself and to explain the purpose of this project you’ve stumbled into. I am a neurodivergent woman on the younger side of the millennial generation who was raised in poverty in the Midwestern USA. I am a sensitive soul that was born into a dysfunctional family rooted in toxic small communities; my life prior to 2020 had been a bit of a twisted and confusing mess. In 2020, I gained some much-needed distance from relationships that had been counter-productive to my own personal development and started down a different path that has allowed me to finally find some peace within myself.

Throughout the years, I’ve experienced numerous painful situations that I attempted to move on from without closure or healing. Those aren’t skills that my parents had to pass on to me and I unfortunately wasn’t lucky enough to have picked them up from another adult in my life. This blog is essentially a way for me to examine the events and relationships in my life’s timeline and to reflect on how they have affected me in both the past and present. You could think of it as some kind of intimate public journal.

Documenting my experience publicly is important to me; if even just one person who ends up seeing this leaves feeling seen and validated I will have accomplished what I set out to do. One of the most helpful things I’ve learned in my adult life is the importance of vulnerable communication and human connection. It can be easy to get lost in big feelings that seem like they would be impossible to understand from outside of your own perspective, but talking about these feelings with a person who respects you as an individual and has made the effort to get to know that individual helps to alleviate some of the burden that they can impose.

Finally, I want to add that although I have not been treated well by many people in my lifetime, I have no desire to expose them for their actions or harm them in any way by sharing my experiences. Any person mentioned on any page on this website has been assigned a name that doesn’t actually belong to them in an attempt to protect their identities. It is my intention that it would be impossible for a person to link an individual to their true identity unless they themselves were involved in whatever situations are being discussed, but preferably no one I knew will ever see any of this.