LIFE AFTER + 1

There’s a big misunderstanding around healing after a breakup. A lot of people seem to believe that healing means you’ve accepted that the relationship is over. That you’ve stopped crying every day. That you can say “I’m fine” without your voice cracking. And while acceptance is  an important part of the process, it’s not the finish line, accepting the breakup it’s the first part of healing not the entire process. Acceptance is simply acknowledging that the relationship has e

As a single parent, slowing down can feel really uncomfortable. Because for so long, you haven’t had the luxury of slowing down. You’ve had to hold everything together. You’ve had to keep going, keep functioning, keep showing up for your kids, even when you’re exhausted and running on empty. So, slowing down feels risky. It can feel like if you stop, everything might catch up with you, like you have no time to stop because if you do it will all fall apart. You keep moving. Yo

There is a very specific kind of pain that comes with a breakup you didn’t choose. It’s the kind that leaves you feeling blindsided. One minute you’re still holding on, still trying, still believing there’s a future, and the next, that future is taken out of your hands. You don’t just lose the relationship. You lose the life you were building in your mind. The plans. The routines. The version of yourself you were becoming within that relationship. And how do you accept someth