When I think about 2026, and if I could choose a theme for the year, it would be this: choosing joy, happiness, and hope—despite everything that has happened over the last few years leading up to today. For a long time, choosing joy felt complicated. It felt like I was minimizing what had happened to me. Like if I let myself feel happy, I was somehow erasing the pain, the trauma, the loss—or pretending it didn’t matter. As if joy required denial. It doesn’t. 2025 was a year of my eyes...

a raw, reflective letter to the woman I was in 2025-- the year everything unraveled and revealed the truth. This post explores loss, identity, financial abuse, public fallout, forgivness and the decision to walk away and start over. Its about choosing authenticity over access, peace over performance, and closing one chapter with intention before stepping into the next.

On August 20, 2025, my ex-husband will ask the court to expunge his domestic violence conviction. I am sharing my story as a survivor, advocate, and truth-teller to oppose the erasure of what happened to me—and to speak out for those who are still silenced. Justice shouldn't expire, and this is my stand.