Broken, Bare, and Rising: The No-BS Blog
This blog isn’t about sugarcoating life. There’s no “everything happens for a reason” here, no fluffy affirmations, no pretending I’ve got it all figured out. This is my no BS space to lay it all out my mess, my chaos, my survival. The days when my body won’t cooperate, my mind won’t stop racing, and the world feels like it’s moving forward without me.
This is where I get real about chronic illness, mental health struggles, trauma, and the uphill battle of just existing. It’s messy, it’s raw, and it’s honest the kind of honesty most people avoid.
Here, inspiration meets reality. Education meets raw truth. Awareness meets healing. And yeah… it’s basically my virtual diary, documenting the unfiltered truth of navigating a life that doesn’t come with an instruction manual.
You’ll read about the hard stuff the heartbreak, the isolation, the setbacks no one warns you about but also the wins, the small wins, and the unexpected moments of clarity that remind you: you can survive this, and you can rise from it stronger than you thought possible.
Topics include:
Domestic Violence and Healing – the ugly, the painful, the survival
Health and Wellness – what actually works when your body fights you
Living With Chronic Illness and Pain – the days that feel impossible and the victories that keep you going
Reflections – raw thoughts, uncomfortable truths, and insights from the trenches
Blog Series on Various Topics – deep dives into specific struggles, challenges, and growth areas so you can really learn, relate, and reflect
This space is for anyone who’s tired of pretending. For anyone who’s felt unseen, stuck, or defeated. Your pain doesn’t define you, your courage to rise does. Step in. Read, reflect, and claim your power.
Part Two - Grieving the Life You Thought you would Have
The grief that comes when your life doesn't unfold the way you imagined. When your body changes the plan. When trauma rewrites your story. When chronic illness, loss, heartbreak, or circumstances force you to let go of the future you spent years dreaming about.
Blog Series - Creating a Beautiful Life
If you're reading this, chances are your life hasn't gone the way you planned.
Part One - The Battle No One Sees
Living with chronic pain and multiple chronic illnesses. It's time to tell that story too. Because while trauma shaped part of my life, chronic illness has shaped every single day that followed.
Five Years of Fighting to Be Heard
Five years ago, I walked away from domestic violence believing that leaving would be the hardest part. I couldn't have imagined that the healing journey would ask so much more of me.
Lesson Tw0 from Starting Over
The hardest lesson I've learned is the word chronic doesn't always mean getting better. Sometimes chronic illness means accepting.
Lesson One from Starting Over
One day you're living what feels like a normal life, and the next you're packing boxes, navigating medical appointments, managing chronic pain, grieving relationships, questioning who you can trust, and wondering where you'll find the strength to keep going.
When Family Becomes the Trigger
But for many people, family is not where safety is learned it’s where triggers are formed.
Personal Reflection-The Accountability Shift
There comes a point where you can't keep blaming your past for every decision you make.
Slightly Feral Tuesday
feeling slightly feral, actually, scratch that. I woke up feeling like a full-blown gremlin.
Creating some Kind of Normality.
Nothing feels settled. Nothing feels familiar. Every corner of my world feels temporary. And if I'm honest, that's hard for someone like me
Part 2 - Self Healing
For a long time, I thought healing meant getting back to who I was before everything happened.
Chapter Five: The Accountability Shift
Owning your reactions without self-blame is harder than it sounds because shame is often the first language trauma teaches.
What I Needed Instead of Coping Mechanisms
I used to think I needed to stop my coping mechanisms. What I actually needed was something safer to replace what they were doing for me.
Personal Reflection on Five Years of Healing
My nervous system had learned that uncertainty meant connection.
Part 1 - Self-Healing
Is Not What I Thought It Was, I used to think self-healing meant fixing myself.
When the Body Remembers
Trauma doesn’t stay in the past. It doesn’t remain neatly stored in memory, something you can simply think your way out of It
Chapter Four: Coping Mechanisms That Were Actually Survival
What is often referred to as “bad habits” is frequently a reflection of nervous system survival strategies
May Reflection
It felt like every time I got my feet underneath me, something else came along and knocked me sideways.
What Healing Asked of Me - Self-Compassion
But self-compassion didn’t come from forcing softness, it came from understanding.
What Healing Asked of Me - Self-Worth
Self-worth was never a concept I truly grasped; it always felt conditional.