“Fear is the number one way to control your soul. When you step beyond it, you step into your true nature as an untouchable soul.” ― Darius J. Wright Two years ago, while visiting my mom in Brazil, I found out that the cousin who molested me was coming to our New Year's Eve celebration. The moment I heard the news, I went into a state of disarray. I wasn’t sure how to feel—because it wasn’t until recent years that I began to recognize what happened between him and me (I was 11, and he was 27)...

The nervous system only learns new stories when you stop playing the old ones. ― Chandresh Bhardwaj I met a guy online recently. We hit it off on day one—actually, hour one. Lol. We were so different but had so much in common. Everything felt easy, natural, smooth. That first night, we talked on the phone for 5 hours.It wasn’t butterflies—it was more like, “I feel like I know you.”Or like Gotye would say: “Somebody that I used to know.” A few dates here and there. He cooked for me, I cooked...

Have you Heard of Complicated Grief? I hadn’t! Until I realized I was experiencing it. Complicated grief is a prolonged lasting reaction to loss. Situations where people cannot get over the fact that someone is gone or they keep relieving the occurrence of the loss. Those who are experiencing complicated grief often feel stuck in a particular emotion and they can see to move past it. Most times the loss was either traumatic, sudden death suicide, or lack of closure from a relationship....