SAM Frida

Cassie Ventura inspires me in a way I couldn’t have grasped in an earlier version of myself. Back then, I would have read the news and felt heartbreak, deep compassion for what she endured. And while that hasn’t changed, something else has grown stronger—respect....

If you carry a belonging wound, you’ll do almost anything to avoid the ache of exclusion. You’ll twist yourself into shapes, overextend, overgive—especially to those who keep you at arm’s length. The more someone pushes you away, the harder you try. That’s how deep...

What if conflict isn’t personal? I attended a session with Vienna Pharaon, author of The Origins of You, and one takeaway hit hard: conflict is often just two nervous systems trying to protect their hosts. That changes everything. Instead of seeing someone as the...

What if your mother’s silence was her higher self trusting you would find the words? What if the trauma you inherited wasn’t a burden, but a coded invitation to awaken, break, rebuild—and rise? It’s not romanticizing pain. It’s recognizing that those of us who make it...

This is what it means, not expressing the “woke” verbiage but living it.

We weren’t just taught to be good—we were conditioned to disconnect. From childhood, we were trained to override our inner knowing for the comfort of others. “Don’t talk back.” “Be nice.” “Good girls don’t act like that.” These cultural scripts run deep, and they...

People love to say, “You’re so strong,” or “I could never survive that.” But truth is, you don’t know your strength until life forces it out of you. I used to think I wasn’t strong either. And then everything crumbled. What came next was pain I wouldn’t wish on...