Tag: healing

• I go back to December (actually September-December) all the time

  It’s my own fault, although, I’m trying to have grace. Leaving an almost 10 year relationship, with kids, isn’t exactly a walk in the park. I feel like I’m relieving those 4 months that really solidified that I needed to leave. It’s almost like Groundhog Day. The same conversations and arguments that go unresolved. Almost…

  Jessica Blake

  May 5, 2026

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  empowerment, family, grief, healing, life, love, mental-health, relationships, self discovery, self-love, writing

• Hope is a sneaky bastard…

  Hope can be a wonderful beautiful thing… But sometimes hope is one sneaky bastard. Hope can keep you somewhere you don’t belong for too long. “Maybe it’ll get better.” “Maybe he’ll hear me this time.” Sometimes in order to heal you have to let go of hope… Sometimes you need to realize the current situation…

  Jessica Blake

  April 22, 2026

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  emotional-release, empowerment, family, grief, healing, life, love, mental-health, narcissists, relationships, self discovery, self-love, writing

• Reclaiming Strength Through Running: A Personal Journey

  I’ve always been a runner. But somewhere between babies, broken sleep, and giving so much of myself away to people who would never return it, I lost her. Not all at once. Just slowly… quietly… like something I told myself I’d come back to when life settled down. My body became something different in those…

  Jessica Blake

  April 16, 2026

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  family, healing, health, life, mental-health, personal growth, running, self discovery, writing

• 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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• 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