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Healing Journey & Reflections
Stories from the heart — this category dives into the raw, honest reflections behind the mask of avoidance. Here, healing isn’t theory; it’s personal, vulnerable, and lived in real time.
What I’m Learning to Do: A Healing Avoidant’s Next Chapter
The follow-up to “10 Things I Hate About Me” There was a time when all I knew how to do was run. From love, from pain, from myself. And...
Healing Avoidant
7 hours ago3 min read
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10 Things I Hate About Me (The Old Me, The Avoidant One)
This Healing Avoidant’s take on 10 Things I Hate About You This isn’t shame. It’s accountability. This isn’t a pity party. It’s a...
Healing Avoidant
3 days ago3 min read
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Gratitude Changed Everything (Even When Nothing Else Did)
“No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. But any amount of gratitude changes the present.” I read...
Healing Avoidant
6 days ago3 min read
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For the Love That Deserved Better: I’m Becoming Ready Now
A Healing Avoidant Reflection There’s a kind of love that leaves a mark — not because it stayed, but because it showed you everything you...
Healing Avoidant
May 163 min read
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"I'm a Proud Avoidant" — The Words That Should Never Be a Badge of Honor
Someone shared a piece of her story with me. Her avoidant told her, with no hesitation, no irony, and no shame: "I'm a proud avoidant."...
Healing Avoidant
May 142 min read
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The Nineteenth Hour: A Mother’s Day Tribute
A Healing Avoidant Reflection on the Mom Who Didn’t Raise Me—But Still Changed Everything Mother’s Day is complicated when your mom...
Healing Avoidant
May 114 min read
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Grief Has a Funny Way of Working
Grief is a funny thing. Losing someone is always hard at first — but when moments pop up, like a Facebook memory from 14 years ago, eight...
Healing Avoidant
Apr 255 min read
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The Word Was "Compromise"
Early in my healing journey, starting therapy, and renewing my faith in Jesus, this is a story, a letter, a journal entry I wrote. The...
Healing Avoidant
Apr 223 min read
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The Who That's Behind Healing Avoidant
There’s a moment in every journey when you either keep running or finally stop to face what you’ve been avoiding your whole life. For me,...
Healing Avoidant
Apr 154 min read
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Healing Didn’t Happen Overnight—But God Never Left My Side
This story isn’t just about pain—it’s about purpose. About how God used physical discipline to prepare my heart for spiritual...
Healing Avoidant
Apr 114 min read
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Letter to Mom
As part of my healing journey, and per the advice of my therapist, I was tasked with writing a letter to my mom. Why you may ask? Well,...
Healing Avoidant
Mar 3116 min read
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Healing Avoidant — The Journey Begins
For most of my life, I didn’t realize I was running— from connection, from intimacy, from the terrifying risk of being truly known.I wore...
Healing Avoidant
Mar 272 min read
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