Do You Have to Be Psychic to Read Tarot? The Truth About Intuition and Skill
Do you need to be psychic to read tarot? A grounded look at what actually makes tarot readings powerful: presence, listening, and psychological insight.
A Million Little Pieces and the Truth About Ugly Healing
A reflection on A Million Little Pieces and what addiction, shame, and messy recovery teach us about resilience and rebuilding.
Finding Meaning in Suffering: Lessons from Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
A reflection on Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning and how trauma, lung cancer, and childhood dysfunction reshaped my understanding of purpose.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult: What Fiction Taught Me About Compassion and Silence
A reflection on Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes and what fiction teaches about bullying, compassion, silence, and moral complexity.
When Breath Becomes Air: What Lung Cancer Taught Me About Time, Identity, and Meaning
A reflection on When Breath Becomes Air, lung cancer, mortality, identity, and what it means to live fully before time runs out.
The Untethered Soul Review: Meditation, Letting Go, and the Freedom of Awareness
A reflection on The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer, meditation, letting go, and discovering you are not your thoughts but the awareness behind them.
Books That Healed Me: How Reading Became My First Safe Space
Before Crystolight, before astrology and tarot, there were books.
Reading was my first safe space, a refuge when the world around me felt chaotic or unstable. Through childhood, grief, illness, and constant transitions, books gave me language for what I couldn’t yet articulate. They offered perspective, resilience, and the reminder that there were other ways to live and think.
This series explores the books that healed me: from self-help titles that provided practical frameworks for growth to fiction that cultivated empathy and emotional depth. These weren’t passive reads. They reshaped how I understand pain, responsibility, love, and healing.
If you’ve ever turned to reading during a difficult season, you’ll understand: sometimes stories don’t just entertain us. They steady us.
Growing Up With an Emotionally Unstable Mother
From the outside, my childhood looked comfortable and secure. But security and emotional safety are not the same thing. In this reflection, I explore growing up with an emotionally unstable mother, the complexity of loving someone who also hurt you, and how understanding her trauma does not erase its impact.
Stage 0 Lung Cancer at 30: What Thoracic Surgery Taught Me About Health, Insurance, and Living Fully
A personal reflection on stage 0 lung cancer, thoracic surgery recovery, early detection, insurance, and the life lessons that changed everything.