I used to think healing would feel like sunlight.
Like a slow, golden unraveling where the pain would loosen and float away, leaving only ease.
But healing—at least the kind I know—is messier. It’s shadow and light, tenderness and grit. It’s the quiet ache of realizing some parts of you have been waiting decades to be heard. And the even quieter truth that no one can walk that road for you, but you also don’t have to do it alone.
I’ve been the girl who kept it together in front of everyone, only to fall apart in the safety of my own room.
The one who played “fine” so well it became a second skin.
The one who didn’t know how to be soft without bracing for impact.
Somewhere along the way, I decided that survival was my job. Not joy. Not belonging. Not rest. Just survival.
And then, life—love, grief, therapy, failure, beauty—started peeling me open. It was uncomfortable. Unsteady. It felt like losing my edges. But in that unraveling, I found the pieces of me I had been protecting for years.
The scared teenager who wanted someone to tell her it wasn’t her fault.
The child who wanted to draw and sing and be loud without being told she was “too much.”
The adult who wanted a life that wasn’t just tolerable, but actually felt like hers.
Mental Nesting was born from that in-between place—where healing isn’t polished and perfect, but lived-in and real. Where grief and softness can coexist. Where your inner child can stretch out, take up space, and trust they won’t be abandoned again.
I don’t pretend to have all the answers. What I do have is a space—a soft, steady space—to sit with you in the middle. To listen without fixing. To offer tools that feel like a blanket you want to wrap yourself in, not a checklist you’ll shame yourself over.
Because I believe the way we heal matters.
Not the speed. Not the “results.”
The way.
And maybe you’re here because part of you is tired of doing it alone.
Maybe you want someone to remind you that slow, messy healing still counts.
That you can be a work in progress and still be worthy of gentleness.
If that’s you, I’d love to meet you there.
To walk with you in that tender space between where you’ve been and where you’re going.
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