Marissa Michelle

~Celebrating the love I give as a single Mama to my two small bright lights who exist in human form. The hardest and truest 5 years of my life.
~Celebrating the small wins, the ones that only I can see, the wins that keep me going every day. 
~Celebrating being on the other side of the darkest of days, because l worked hard to get here despite how messy it looks on the outside.
~Fully knowing those dark days may come again.
~Sharpening the tools I’ve learned to support me through the juxtaposition of living simultaneously as Piglet & Eeyore,
but striving for Pooh.
~Living simultaneously with Anxiety & Depression but striving for Presence.

*Mama, Daughter, Sister, Friend, Partner, Healer, Fur-Baby Parent, Queer, Vegan, Plant Mama, Co-Parent/Divorcee, Dancer, Writer, Thinker, Daydreamer, Deep Feeler, Professional Weirdo, and so much more, as we all are*

*Living with multiple rapidly worsening degenerative neurological conditions and chronic pain * ADHD * Dyscalculia * Rape survivor * Multiple sexual abuse survivor * Long-term Intimate Partner Violence & Narcissist Abuse * Trichotillomania * CPTSD * Healing!*

‘We all have ‘something’, or ‘some-things’”, I often say.*

Holding in my heart the ones who feel they’ve just slipped through the cracks, but who fight like hell to come out.

We are the flowers, the weeds & the grass that grow through cracks in the pavement. 

To those of you who intentionally walk through fire because the alternative hurts even more, 

To those of you who rise like a Phoenix to live their most beautiful, truest lives,
To those of you who aren’t there yet and those who never will be,

This is for everyone there and in between,

this is for all of you.