Tag: self-love

• I Don’t Want to be the Engine Anymore

  Discover the silent erosion in your relationships: When compromise masks deeper needs, and you become the unseen engine of endless effort.

  Jessica Blake

  February 6, 2026

  Poems

  emotional-release, emotional_healing, empowerment, love, personal-growth, poetry, self discovery, self-love, writing

• Self-abandonment Disguised as Virtue

  There is a particular kind of goodness women are taught. It looks like patience. It sounds like forgiveness. It wears the soft voice of “understanding” and the quiet smile of “it’s okay.” It is praised. It is rewarded. It is often called strength. But underneath the gold star language lives something much darker: Self-abandonment. We…

  Jessica Blake

  January 4, 2026

  Real Life- Author’s Posts

  break-free, divorce, emotional-connection, emotional-release, empowerment, mental-health, self discovery, self-empowerment, self-love

• Wild & Rooted

  

  Every day, I am becoming more myself. My time.My body.My mind.My space.My creativity. For a long time, I tried to make myself fit into a life that wasn’t meant for me — shrinking, editing, and smoothing my edges to survive in places that questioned my right to exist fully. “Why is your stuff everywhere?”“Why do…

  Jessica Blake

  December 30, 2025

  Real Life- Author’s Posts

  choose yourself, life after divorce, love, mental-health, personal growth, self-love, writing

• Without Apology

  

  I deserve the world. I am not too much— not too loud, not too demanding, not too opinionated. I think with my heart. I live in color. I want to be free. I want to use my voice. I exist— without apology, without shrinking, without asking permission. I am not too much.

  Jessica Blake

  December 16, 2025

  Poems

  emotions, growing, life, love, mental-health, personal-growth, relationships, self discovery, self-love