If you’ve been with me on this journey for a while, you know how much I love to journal because I write about it all of the time. Second only to creating and enforcing boundaries, journaling is one of my favorite forms of self care. And if you have checked out my etsy shop at …
If you’ve been following along this month, I’ve been talking about the different types of abuse leading up to how it shows up in cycles and affects our relationships. This week, I’m going to focus on two major categories: mental abuse and neglect. I’ll start with mental abuse. Mental abuse comes in many forms and …
Two weeks ago, I shared about Imposter Syndrome. Then last week, I mentioned that I would share some ways to combat it. So, here I am to keep my word and share some of what I have learned about and what has been working for me. It’s time to let go of perfect. The biggest …
Hello everyone! It’s time for another guest post. This week’s amazing writer is Deborah Cherrey, who I met not too long ago but was immediately impressed with. I was drawn to Deborah because she shares some of my highest goals: supporting and empowering women! If you’ve been with EEA for a while now, you know …
Last week, I cleaned out and reorganized my refrigerator. It sounds pretty basic, but it felt like such a huge accomplishment. It was something I’d been needing to do for a while but kept finding reasons not to. Then I had a meeting with my life coach who told me to stop making excuses and …
Healing is a really complicated thing. Some days you feel like you’re making a lot of progress and it makes you feel really powerful. Other days, not so much but at least you’re further ahead than you were a year ago, so that’s still something. Then there are the bad days. The fucked up, panic-attack-filled, …
Do you struggle with accepting a compliment? You either deflect immediately or respond with why it’s not true or with something self-deprecating? Or maybe you smile uncomfortably and in your mind, you start trying to figure out what that person’s angle is? You start wondering why they’re buttering you up, what they’re trying to get …
Now that Halloween is over, the holiday season is officially upon us. The weather is getting colder, lights are being hung, and many of us are starting to make plans to see our loved ones to celebrate important days like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukkah. For me, this signals that it’s time to start shopping for …
I will be the first to admit that I am a control freak. It comes with the territory of being a perfectionist. When things are out of my control, I get nervous, anxious, and a little bit scared. This made it really hard for me to accept that we can’t control what other people say, …
I wish I could say that I’ve never experienced jealousy or bitterness, and that I’ve always chose to support other women from the start. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. A recent example comes to mind pretty quickly actually. My sister recently started her own DIY side hustle and it turns out, she’s pretty great at …
