Posts by Small Town Gyrl
Apparently This Is My Personality Now
I used to think growth would feel more glamorous. Like I’d wake up one day calm, confident, regulated — sipping tea while making excellent life decisions and responding to everything…
Read MoreWithout Bracing
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about safety — not the obvious kind, but the quieter kind that lives in the body. Not the kind that’s proven with words or…
Read MoreThe World Is Loud. I’m Choosing Quiet.
I’ve been paying attention to what happens inside me depending on where I place my focus. And the truth is, constant exposure to noise, outrage, and fear slowly rewires the…
Read More🌕 Illuminated, Slightly Unhinged
Tonight is the first full moon of the year. Which feels… accurate. Because nothing says fresh start like a giant glowing orb in the sky shining a flashlight directly on your emotional…
Read MoreNew Year’s Eve Reflections: Holding It All
This year has held me in contradictions. I have been my happiest and I have been my saddest— sometimes within the very same breath. There were moments when my heart…
Read MoreChristmas Day
Today didn’t arrive loudly. It didn’t ask me to be cheerful or productive or full of answers. I moved slowly. I connected with people who have mattered to my life…
Read MoreThe Longest Night, the Turning
Today marks the Winter Solstice — the longest night of the year. The moment when darkness reaches its fullest expression before it begins, quietly and without announcement, to loosen its…
Read MoreWho I Choose to Be
Lately, I’ve been asking myself a different question — not what should I say or how do I protect myself, but who do I want to be in this moment.…
Read MoreThe Long Way Back to Her
Intro: This is a reflection on survival, silence, and the long road back to myself. She was never gone. She was constricted. Silenced by survival. By adaptation. By doing what she…
Read MoreThe Heart Behind the Holidays
There’s something I’ve been sitting with this week — a quiet tug, almost like a whisper beneath the noise of the holiday rush. This season always carries a strange duality…
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