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Love as the Portal

A short, reflective series exploring the arc of awakening, self-trust and embodied awareness.

Love as the Portal

Moments I Chose Myself

Sep 2, 2025

Moments I Chose Myself

Chapter 5: From small choices at sunrise to life-changing decisions, here’s how I stepped into alignment, self-trust and the life I was meant to live.

Love as the Portal

What It Costs Us to Stay

Aug 26, 2025

What It Costs Us to Stay

Chapter 4: We don’t always notice the slow erosion—of self, of spirit, of truth—when we stay somewhere we’ve long outgrown. This piece explores the quiet, painful cost of staying too long.

Love as the Portal

We Seek The Redo

Aug 19, 2025

We Seek The Redo

Chapter 3: We don’t cling to what feels good — we cling to what feels familiar. A reflection on unconscious reenactment in love and how the past often repeats until we heal.

Love as the Portal

You Are Not Broken

Aug 12, 2025

You Are Not Broken

Chapter 2: A poem for the woman whose heart is closed, whose body no longer reaches for touch. A quiet reminder that numbness is not failure — it’s wisdom. And beneath it all, you are still whole.

Love as the Portal

The Things We Swallow in Love

Aug 5, 2025

The Things We Swallow in Love

Chapter 1: A tender reflection for the women who’ve learned to dim their longings to stay safe and what it slowly costs us.

Love as the Portal

When Love Isn’t the Point, but the Portal

Jul 30, 2025

When Love Isn’t the Point, but the Portal

Season 1 Intro: A new series on the quiet reckoning with old wounds, patterns of self-abandonment and the mirrors that show us where we still struggle to choose ourselves.

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For the Woman Returning to Herself

Journal-style reflections and storytelling on authentic living, conscious motherhood and feminine awakening. This space offers intimate windows into the raw beauty of an unfolding life — tracing the quiet, powerful journey of becoming.

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