Where do I begin…Oh Right you try not to shake the box too hard “Fragile”
Becoming Unboxed grew from what I like to say from a life shaped by unusually difficult and complicated circumstance. I honestly believe we all have some portion of life that tried to reduce us to something small, try to confine us, silence all the whole forcing us into a box we didn’t choose to silence. It is my belief that everyone has a story, experiences and a desire to be heard
Life itself topped with trauma can have a way of altering the version of yourselves. For years, I carried traumatic experiences and quietly endured their pain as I tried to survive, work, raise my children and make sense of what all the things that life has thrown my way.
Once I began down the road of trauma recovery and healing, I began to realize that I am not the only person out there that may be suffering. I want my pain help others move toward healing. I want to give a voice to those who may not or do not have the strength or voice to make the healing leap into the feeling and telling their story.
Everyone has a story. Not every story is beautiful and is painless. Yet every person deserves to be allowed to share their story and release their pain into the wind so that those words control on help then release their pain once and for all.
I am inviting you into the world of Becoming Unboxed along with me in my healing journey. I welcome you into my world where survival, institutional betrayal, justice and healing trauma wounds. I hope to show others through stories a way to take that painful step through the difficult process of becoming more than what happened me. I want my story to continue so that everyone can find a way to become unboxed from pain that made you need to sake out my page to start with
Healing is a journey. My hope is that something in these words helps you be seen, understood, or less alone. I know that my stories cannot reflect your journey. I hope maybe some part allows you to recognize yourself. Your own struggle to be heard, shines through these pages. All the fear start to fade away and they help you reclaim a life that whatever silenced you found you feeling lost and numb.
Becoming Unboxed is where I tell the truth, continue healing, and make room for others to do the same.
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They Thanked Me for My Service. I Was Begging Them for Help.
I spent nearly half my life as a proud public servant. Twenty-six and a half years, to be exact. How do you explain being a woman who proudly dedicated more than twenty-six years of her life to serving the people of Arkansas, only to find herself fighting the very government she spent her career serving?…
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The Woman in the Flowered Nightgown
–An Unexpected Journey Back to Belonging– Saturday morning, I looked at my daughter and told her something I hadn’t been able to believe about myself for a very long time. I deserve a seat at the table. I didn’t know that before the morning was over, I would find myself sitting on a stranger’s couch,…
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The Gift of Being Selfless
What does it mean to be a good person? The way I see it, everyone has the capability of being a good person. All it takes is looking outside yourself and seeing the person standing in front of you. Everyone should be equal or greater than your overall sense of self. It doesn’t take much…
