Want to receive my weekly blog? Sign up for author insights, new stories and creative updates straight to your inbox every week. Your support means everything! → Stay in the Story I have been on a journey to wholeness for so long that I’ve forgotten what the destination even looks like. That’s what trauma does—it reshapes you into a lifelong survivor. Survival becomes second nature, almost as if you were being trained for a post-apocalyptic world. But when peace arrives, when

I don’t consider myself to be an extrovert. I am probably more of an ambivert. While I am not shy and enjoy performing and public speaking, I prefer spending time in smaller groups, and I get more out of one-on-one conversations. Large parties with tons of superficial chit-chat, and work trainings with breakout sessions that include speedy get-to-know-each-other exercises, where you play games like “Two Truths and a Lie,” stress me out!