Power in Healing

When my ex-husband and I first got divorced, I put almost nothing about it on social media. I was embarrassed. I'd failed and I didn't want anyone to know. Despite making a career out of helping others use social media, I hesitated to put those kinds of emotions out there for everyone to see. Being vulnerable is terrifying - especially when the six years leading up to that moment it had been so heavily discouraged. But one day, I opened up a little bit about my story and the results were unbelievable.

People who I didn't know had struggled or were struggling with an emotionally abusive relationship reached out to me privately to thank me for sharing. I was connected with strangers, reconnected with old friends. Many people said "you should write a book." Something scares me about the thought of having everything I went through on paper, but somehow this seems less intimidating.

After a lot of back and forth, I decided that maybe a blog was the place to start. I've always been
better at expressing myself through my writing, so perhaps the experience would be cathartic. Maybe I would reach someone who needed to know they aren't alone. So here we are. I'm not sure where this will go, but I can promise everything I write will be completely genuine. Because of that, I know it may be hard to read at times. But if there's anything I've learned, there is power in healing through your story.