Tag: healing

• My Unexpected Fantasy Era

  

  I used to be so sure of who I was. Not in a deep, existential way—just in the small, everyday preferences that feel fixed. The kinds of things you don’t question because they’ve always been true. I wasn’t a fantasy person. I liked things grounded in reality. Stories that felt possible. Relatable. Familiar. I would’ve…

  Jessica Blake

  March 20, 2026

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  family, healing, life, love, mental-health, self discovery, writing

• I’m Still Here…Just Processing

  Things have not gone according to plan, or at least the plan I created in my head. I wanted to file on my birthday and serve in the days following. However, that was the same week I went back to work. My nervous system became overwhelmed. I couldn’t file. I couldn’t even think about having…

  Jessica Blake

  January 18, 2026

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  family, healing, life, love, mental-health, narcissim, narcissists, relationships, self discovery, writing

• Pathological People Pleaser

  (Yes, I do speak in Taylor Swift lyrics…don’t judge me) There is a quiet moment that comes before a life changes. It doesn’t look dramatic.It doesn’t announce itself.It doesn’t come with fireworks or certainty. It comes in small realizations. In questions you don’t ask out loud.In pauses that feel heavier than words.In the ache of…

  Jessica Blake

  December 31, 2025

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  change is scary, healing, life, life changes, love, mental-health, personal growth, writing

• Slowness is Healing

  There are very few people in my life who truly know what I am walking through. Oddly enough, I like it that way. There is a reason for this season of quiet. I am healing — not just from my marriage, not just from the constant tension my body has lived inside of — but…

  Jessica Blake

  December 29, 2025

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  family, healing, health, life, love, mental-health, spirituality, writing

• Building Flowers in a Burning Room.

  

  My kitchen table is covered in tiny plastic petals.Yellow, blush, ivory, sage.My hands are snapping together LEGO flowers while my life feels like it’s quietly imploding in the background. The world I live inside right now is loud.Emotionally unpredictable.Heavy with tension.Full of things that make my nervous system brace itself even when nothing is “happening.”…

  Jessica Blake

  December 28, 2025

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  grief, healing, life, love, mental-health, narcissim, relationships, writing