Sometimes healing finds us when we’re not even looking. Join me on an unexpected journey of self-discovery — one that began with a funeral and ended with finding forgotten pieces of myself. Some journeys don’t start with a plan.They start with a phone call, a plane ticket, and a quiet ache that settles somewhere deep in your chest. I didn’t know this trip — this goodbye — would also be a beginning. I was traveling to my grandmother’s funeral, but I was also traveling back to

Be Yourself When the sadness starts to take over, the phobias start to win. Feelings of being powerless in my surroundings begin to take over. The walls grow thicker in my head, and the heaviness makes me feel weak. Usually, people with anxiety disorders hide it well — though in their minds, they think everyone can tell. Social anxiety  is a very self-centered condition. Your mind tells you that everyone is looking at you and judging you. This is where you lose yourself — whe