You walk out of that relationship or that church or that job wondering if you are the problem. Wondering if you imagined it. Wondering why, if you prayed hard enough and tried hard enough and gave enough of yourself away, it still ended in rubble.

If you’re coming out of trauma, whether it’s abuse, loss, betrayal, or the kind of slow erosion that happens when you spend years in surviva

Some years, Thanksgiving doesn’t arrive wrapped in Norman Rockwell scenes and Instagram-perfect gatherings.