Category: At This BIG Age
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We Grew Up Together… So How Did We Become Strangers? (Part 1)
When My Cousins Were My Sisters When you’re a kid, nobody tells you that some of the people you can’t imagine living without might one day become people you barely talk to. Nobody tells you that the sleepovers will eventually stop. That Grandma’s house won’t always feel the same. That everybody will grow up, have…
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Part 3: My Rebirth
Living My Life Out Loud People often ask what church hurt taught me. My answer surprises them. It didn’t teach me to stop believing in God. It taught me to stop letting other people define my relationship with Him. It taught me something even bigger. Never hand someone else the pen and let them write…
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Part 2: When Your Safe Place Stopped Feeling Safe
The Cost of Losing Yourself There’s something heartbreaking about watching the place that once felt like home slowly stop feeling safe. It doesn’t happen all at once. At least it didn’t for me. It’s little moments. Conversations that leave you questioning yourself. A strange feeling you can’t explain. Walking on eggshells. Wondering if you said…
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Adulting Sucks
You want to know when I realized I was officially an adult? It wasn’t when I turned 18. It wasn’t when I got my first job, started paying bills, got married, or even when I had my first baby. Nope. It was one random day when I looked around at all these kids in my…
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The Weight of Other People’s Opinion
There was a time when I worried about what everyone thought of me. I spent years trying to be the version of myself that made other people comfortable. I changed the way I talked, the way I dressed, the way I expressed myself, even the way I saw myself, because I believed acceptance came from…
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Part 1: I Lost God Trying to Please People
The Girl Who Thought She Had to Change If you had asked me ten years ago who I trusted the most, I would’ve probably pointed you straight to my church family. Not because they were perfect. But because they became my family. We had game nights. Cookouts. Birthday parties. Christmas’s. Random evenings spent at our…
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Some People Are Seasons
The Friendship That Changed Me Forever (Part 2) “Sometimes God gives us a second chance, not because He intends for things to last forever, but because there are lessons we couldn’t learn the first time around.” Have you ever reunited with someone after years apart and thought, “Yep… this is exactly how it was supposed…
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The Girl with the Big Glasses
The Friendship That Changed Me Forever (Part 1) How good is your memory? I mean, really. Do you remember the first friend you ever made? Not the one you met in middle school. Not the coworker you text memes to every Tuesday. I’m talking about your very first friend. The one whose name instantly takes…
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The Meaning of Life?
The meaning of life is to wake up. Not just physically… but mentally, spiritually, internally. It’s about breaking out of the programming. The lies, the pain, the cycles, the voices, the habits, that try to keep you stuck, small, and distracted. It’s realizing that everything around you will try to shape your reality… but at…
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Emotionally Speaking
Some people find joy in the big things, but me? I find mine in the quiet rhythm of words. I’ve been writing poetry since I was five years old, and over time, it became more than a passion, it became a part of me. The way some people breathe air, I breathe poetry… Here’s a…