Everything I Notice
Essays on relationships, safety, nervous-system regulation, motherhood, trauma, identity, creativity, rebuilding, and the things I am learning as I move forward.
These pieces are personal, reflective, and written from lived experience. Some look backward. Others document what I am understanding now.
Abuse Tried to Erase Me. It Failed.
On October 2, 2025, a simple Wheel of Needs changed how I understood years of coercive control. Looking at basic human needs including safety, honesty, empathy, rest, autonomy, and community, I recognized how thoroughly those needs had been undermined. This essay examines the effects of prolonged relational trauma on my nervous system, functioning, and sense of self, and why safety is foundational to recovery.