Journal
Field notes for coming home to yourself.
Tender, grounded writing for the seasons you may be going through.
The library
The body knows the way home.
Tender, practical notes for the middle of it: what happens in the body when your world shifts, why talking didn't fix it, and how you find ground again.
Awakening, faith shifts, and the dark night
Trauma, the nervous system, and somatic healing
Divorce, grief, and returning to the body
Latest writing
Stories for the season you're in.
somatic healing · June 10, 2026
Can Somatic or Energy Work Really Help Religious Trauma? An Honest Answer
If you're skeptical of anything that sounds like 'woo' after leaving a high-control religion, good. Here's an honest look at what somatic and energy work actually are, why they reach what talk therapy couldn't, and how to tell the grounded from the nonsense.
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dark night of the soul · June 10, 2026
The Dark Night of the Soul, for Someone Leaving the Church
The disorientation after leaving a high-control religion has an old, sacred name: the dark night of the soul. Here's how to understand the dark as a passage rather than a breakdown, and how to find your way through it.
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identity crisis · June 10, 2026
Why Leaving Your Religion Feels Like an Identity Crisis (and Who You Get to Become)
When you leave a high-control religion, you don't just change your beliefs, you lose the self those beliefs built. Here's why it feels like an identity crisis, and how a truer self slowly takes its place.
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PIMO · June 10, 2026
PIMO and Exhausted: How to Find Ground While You're Still In
Physically In, Mentally Out, going through the motions of a faith you no longer believe, while your family still does. If you're PIMO and bone-tired, here's why it's so exhausting, and how to find ground without forcing a decision you're not ready for.
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religious trauma · June 10, 2026
You Left the Church. So Why Does Your Body Still Flinch?
If you left a high-control religion years ago but your body still panics, freezes, or braces, you're not broken. It's called religious residue. Here's why it lingers, and how it thaws.
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the shelf · June 10, 2026
When Your Shelf Breaks: What Comes Next
In the deconstruction world, 'the shelf' is where you stack the doubts you can't resolve, until one day it collapses. If your shelf just broke, here's what's happening, why it feels like vertigo, and how to find ground again.
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Gathered like wildflowers.
Short pieces I wrote about shedding old beliefs, parenting, tending grief, and rewilding the heart.
June 18, 2026
A new template
Parenting without the old script of guilt and shame, raising kids who belong to themselves.
June 10, 2026
Ask your grief a question
A practice for meeting your grief as if it were a stranger who came from out of town.
May 28, 2026
Which stories you carry
One gift of deconstructing religion: you get to choose which stories come with you, and which you set down.
May 15, 2026
Rewilding the heart
In nature, rewilding happens on its own. In the spirit, it takes tender, deliberate work.
April 30, 2026
The Earth's quiet mysteries
Words I wrote at nineteen that still ring true, on our lost intimacy with the living world.
March 15, 2026
Breaking the spells of silence
On holding collective grief in circle, and refusing to let the hardest stories stay buried.
February 1, 2026
Keep the inner fire
Imbolc, St. Brigid, and tending the flame that guides you through the chaos.
December 21, 2025
The traditions we keep
Letting go of inherited holidays and building winter rituals that actually mean something.
