your guide to gentle healing
My mornings are now one of the most important and grounding parts of my day.They weren’t always like this. For a long time, mornings were about checking on and getting through symptoms. Now, they’ve slowly become a space where I reconnect with my body and set the tone for the day. Before my diagnosis, I would often wake up and …
Resolving PPPD was more complex than I ever imagined and took almost four years. Even now (five years in), I do on rare occasions experience very mild symptoms. The difference is that today I have the tools to navigate through them without falling into fight-or-flight mode, and they usually pass within a few minutes. After receiving my diagnosis at the …
Sometimes, when healing feels overwhelming and progress seems slow, it’s the smallest moments of comfort that keep us going. Before I share the next chapter of my healing journey, I want to pause and talk about these “little islands of comfort” that helped me survive some of my toughest days. Amidst the constant fight-or-flight mode, I found what I called …
