I’d like to share a little of my story for the late bloomers out there & the mid life restarters so you know — even if you didn’t get settled in the right timing there’s always hope. Life happens & you do what you can to survive until you figure out how to thrive.
Before I…
Before I…
Throughout all the upheaval & trauma, I leveraged my skills & ambitions in academics, extracurriculars & career as coping mechanisms.
But I wasn’t “ok” nor was I my authentic self. I was a shadow version of myself that focused on escaping the pain & making other people happy.
But I wasn’t “ok” nor was I my authentic self. I was a shadow version of myself that focused on escaping the pain & making other people happy.
These pursuits are meant to be good for us. Although in many ways they’re productive, they can be smokescreens for “capable & resilient” youth to avoid acknowledging & processing the dark stuff they experience. It’s rewarded. Everyone claps & admires you, so you keep doing it.
All I ever really wanted was to run around the garden with my dad in the rain, swim in the ocean & catch lobsters with him, get roughhoused by my handsome older brother, keep playing with my big sister’s clothes when she wasn’t looking, watch my mom cook & enjoy our boisterous…
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