A few recent posts
• • •
- Life gets noisyLife gets noisy. Everyone has an opinion, a warning, a demand, a version of who you should be. But don’t let the noise Decide who you are. -Mandy Ricks
- Ordinary hoursSome days, healing looks less like risingand more like refusing to disappear. There are mornings when the heart wakes slowly,still carrying pieces of yesterday. Not every battle announces itself. Some… Read more: Ordinary hours
- CrawlIf all you can do today is crawl,know this:your heart will still hold you togetherand guide youlike an ancient faith that never fades. -Mandy Ricks
- The story doesn’tSometimes, like last night, trauma resurfaces in dreams. The monsters are disguised as other people, but they always end up hurting and abandoning. Faces change.The story doesn’t. Different voices.Different places.The… Read more: The story doesn’t
- RunningI spent years trying to outrun myself.Racing, panting, hiding.Taking the back roads,creating hollow shadows. Grasping at survival. Moving fast enoughthat the ghostscouldn’t quite catch me. But what I didn’t knowwas… Read more: Running
- Those that walked before usThose that walked before us were not heroes. Just people trying to survive. Some broke, healed, or did a bit of both. They carried grief.Made mistakes.Loved imperfectly. Still, they kept going.… Read more: Those that walked before us
- PeacePeace doesn’t always arrive as happiness.Sometimes it arrives as nothing needing to be fixed for a little while. -Mandy Ricks (with Willow)
- Shelter
- Fear is not always rightTime arrives uninvited,bringing fear and too many questions.It feels as if the love in your heart is cracking, splintering. But before you crumble,look up one more time. There are still… Read more: Fear is not always right
- Get back upLife is hard,cruel.Scars never stop aching.But a point in time comeswhere survival hardens into something dangerous —something that gets back up-bleeding,smoke in its lungs,determined to set fireto anything that tries… Read more: Get back up
• • •
Mandy Ricks 