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I Wasn’t Done… I Just Needed to Breathe
I didn’t stop writing because I had nothing left to say. I stopped because it started to feel like too much. When I first started Tattooed Truths,…
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Learning the Difference Between Guilt and Responsibility
For most of my life, I thought guilt meant I’d done something wrong. Turns out, a lot of the time, guilt just meant I was trained to feel…
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Tattooed Truths: A Year in Review (Pop-Up Post)
This was not the year everything suddenly made sense. It was the year I stopped pretending it didn’t hurt. For a long time, I thought healing would arrive…
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Post 23: The Apology I Had to Give Myself
For most of my life, I waited for an apology that never came. I waited for my father to acknowledge the damage. For someone to say, “You didn’t…
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Post 22: The Apology That Never Came
There are some things you wait your whole life to hear, even when you know deep down you never will. For me, it was simple. Three words. “I’m…
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Post 21: When “I’m Fine” Became My Shield
There are two words I’ve said more than anything else in my life. I’m fine. I said them when I wasn’t fine. When I was overwhelmed. When I…
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