Author Archives: Gracedxoxo

I was 17 when I taught myself to shoot up in my mother’s bathroom while on the phone with my 24 year old boyfriend. Up until that point, he had refused to teach me how…but now I was threatening him now: “tell me how or I’ll botch the job jabbing myself endlessly.” I don’t rememberContinue reading “Begin.”

The first time I was sexually abused by my father, I was around 3 years old. His abuse continued for many years ending around 16 when my ability to consent or even know what that meant had become so obliterated that choice was not in my vocabulary. Because of this, for a long time after,Continue reading “The Incest Taboo”

For a long time, I sought peace outside of myself. I looked everywhere a person could seek. High, low and everywhere in between. Turns out, I didn’t look high enough – God was above all of the highest ideals I sought. Above everything I valued most. I didn’t look there and I didn’t look insideContinue reading “Are You At Peace With Yourself ?”

“Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.” ~Unknown If rock bottom was a destination, the heartbreak of my childhood had sent me there. Not only was I left mourning the loss of my innocence, but I was living with the fact that I could never truly retrieve it. I’d haveContinue reading “Keep Following that Path”

Real hope doesn’t show up without real fear. Most of the time, hope is scary. But the old saying is true, hope is the only thing stronger than fear. Hope and fear are playing in a constant game of tug-of-war. And all of us live somewhere on the rope. It’s tempting to think that theContinue reading “Hope: overused or undervalued ?”