It was 2013 when I had my first mammogram. I was told to get another one done when I turned 40, which was four years later. Here it is 2021 and I’m just getting around to my next mammogram. If you have ever heard that it hurts to have your breast squeezed between two plates, […]

Sexual abuse has immediate and long-term effects. My trip through airport security reminded of just how much my childhood sexual abuse and trauma continues to affect me in adulthood. The unsettling part is that I never know when those effects are going to be triggered.

I am determined to believe in me. What does it feel like to believe in yourself? Like you have a cape and super powers? Like water and ice, one in the same yet two different views?