What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why?
One of the hardest decisions I ever made was choosing to walk away from the life I knew in order to protect myself, grow, and become the woman I needed to be. It wasn’t one moment — it was a series of choices that felt impossible at the time. Staying would have been easier in the moment, but it wouldn’t have given me a future I could stand in with any kind of strength.
Leaving what hurt me, leaving what shaped me, leaving the familiar even when it wasn’t healthy — that was the decision that changed everything.
It meant choosing myself for the first time.
It meant breaking patterns I grew up in.
It meant facing the world without the safety of the old, even when the old wasn’t safe.
It was painful.
It was necessary.
And it made me into who I am now — a woman who protects her peace, loves her family fiercely, and refuses to shrink for anyone.
The hardest decisions are usually the ones that lead us back to ourselves.
Reading Trauma Mama: Velvet & Taboo 