This is my honest space to document the journey from simply surviving to fully thriving as a single mom, a woman healing from heartbreak, and a human reclaiming peace. Here, I share real moments, gentle routines, co-parenting reflections, and the worksheets that help me process it all. This is healing in motion — raw, real, and hopefully, a little Marvalous.
During my fourth EMDR therapy session, I uncovered a belief I didn’t know I’d been carrying most of my life: that I was irreversibly broken. Through trauma reprocessing and a powerful cognition shift, that belief began to change. Instead of powerlessness, a new truth emerged: I can heal. This is the story of how that realization reshaped the way I see my past and my future.
In my third EMDR therapy session, I began reprocessing one of the earliest sources of trauma in my life. What started as a conversation about childhood memories quickly became a powerful experience of noticing how those memories still live in my body. For the first time, I could see how the belief “I am powerless” had quietly shaped parts of my life, and how EMDR is helping me move toward a new truth: I am powerful.
Parenting my three-year-old has taught me something powerful about apologies, boundaries, and emotional maturity. While toddlers are still learning impulse control, adults should know better—and healing sometimes means raising the bar for how we allow others to treat us.