I felt like I'm not getting over it fast enough. Well, who says that you have to get over it fast? Who says that you have to be done? My emotion is my strength.

I know for me my faith has helped a lot.

I'm reclaiming peace, reclaiming joy, reclaiming all the things that I thought that I wasn't.

I speak as someone who has been fearful a lot of her life. To try new things. To be really who I want to be. I speak as the insecure girl. I speak as the middle child.

And I speak as the healing parts of me now, as the girl who felt neglected early in life, felt not seen, abandoned.