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Self-Awareness
I’ve been focusing on self-awareness which to me, includes being able to acknowledge your own bs, be straight up with yourself, and do whatever you need to in order to heal. The first step of my healing journey has been self-awareness. I would describe self-awareness as acknowledging your downfalls, your weaknesses, your traumas, your imperfections,…
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Memories
It’s been a while since I wrote. I have had a lot to think about, a lot of life happening, and I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to continue to write. I’ve been really trying to be present with myself and focus on self-care and self-growth. During the last few months, I thought about…
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Words Are Powerful
It’s been a while since I wrote. A lot has happened in a month or two. We lost both of my grandparents in a span of 3 weeks, and it wasn’t easy. Their deaths have caused a realization, an awakening of sort. Maybe it was grieving or maybe it was realizing how quickly it can…
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Fear
“Trauma may happen to you, but it can never define you” -Melinda Longtin It’s been a while since my last post. Life has been busy and I’ve had writer’s block, at times unsure of what to write about next. I often second guess myself, wondering if reopening my past and sharing it with the world…
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Grounding
This week’s post is about finding safety in subconsciously doing grounding techniques, as well as how trauma has affected me as an adult.
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Childhood Dreams
Keep quiet as much as possible so the beast doesn’t awaken… Desi One of the greatest yet most disturbing things I learned growing up was to keep quiet, to not say anything that might upset dad. The funny thing is, nobody taught me that, it was kind of like a fear response. I must say,…
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History…
I’ll begin by telling you a bit about my history…where I grew up, values I was taught, what shaped me, and what I learned. I was born in a small town in Bulgaria, to a young couple with a 2 year old daughter. What I recall from my childhood is a mixture of this happy,…
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An Introduction…
Hello World, Welcome to my first blog post. I will begin by briefly introducing myself and telling you about my main goal in creating this blog. I come from an Eastern European background, raised by both parents, and I have an older sister. I would say I am European at heart, but raised and grown…