Healing Journey

Are you a COPMI child too? Some of this may feel familiar. I’m not a big fan of labels. Especially when it comes to something as layered as growing up with a mentally ill parent. Labels can easily reduce complex human experiences to a single term and suddenly it feels as if that word defines everything about you. T hey also tend to create identities that are more limiting than helpful and keep you stuck in the condition they describe, like a small cage where you remain trappe

A reflective piece on sixteen years of being single, finding deeper meaning in time alone, and healing generational trauma. Sometimes I smile when I hear people say, almost apologetically, that they’ve been single for two years. Or three. Or—heaven forbid—four. As if time without a partner needs to be explained. I smile—not to minimize their longing or to mock the ache of wanting to be held—but because my last relationship ended sixteen years ago. Imagine what people would ma