Journey Work

REFLECTIONS

  • Almost

    It had been four years since I had seen him. We had texted for a while after I left, keeping things light, familiar… unfinished.But eventually, life moved on. He married… Read more

  • Intimacy

    “I don’t just experience intimacy anymore- I create it.” I had forgotten what it felt like. To spend hours tangled up in bed with someone who truly sees you.Skin against… Read more

  • Pretty Face

    “You do not get to define me by what you fail to understand.” I have always been seen as “just a pretty face”. It’s a quiet kind of dismissal- the… Read more

  • Toothpaste

    The year was 1999, a Monday night in the basement of the Shockey home, where about 20 youth and young adults gathered to listen to one of our youth leaders,… Read more

  • Green Flags in the Wild

    Proof that I have always been committed to the cause 🫠 “You’re going over to the dark side,” he said, tilting his head just enough to be annoying. I turned… Read more

  • Emergency

    I reached up to the top shelf, and suddenly shadows moved across my eyesight before I could catch my breath. My heart rate spiked while my blood pressure plummeted, and… Read more

  • Unreasonable

    When People Need You to Be the Problem After months of problems, complaints, and missed marks, a conversation finally had to happen. “Essentially, she is unable to perform her basic… Read more

  • Coach

    “She is just a coach.” That was how I was recently described, and if I’m honest, I had to sit with it for a little while. Because on paper-tit for… Read more

  • Abuse

    The biggest online debate right now is, of course, Taylor Frankie Paul. I sat down at my laptop, ready to add my own thoughts to the conversation. But before I… Read more

  • Red Flags

    This is a story of when someone tries to make you a weapon in their relationship.  Ive lived in said season. I had spent so much time questioning myself, wondering… Read more