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Redeem Thyself Redeem Thyself supports the journey to self-love and healing. Mission
The mission of Redeem Thyself is understanding the journey to self-love and healing.

Redeem Thyself provides a social media support group for professional women who have experienced trauma and abuse and want to embrace self-acceptance, self-kindness, and self-compassion. It is a platform for women who want to critically and thoughtfully learn together while growing and supporting one another in our journey for a better tomorrow. Vision
Redeem Thyself will provide a social media presence where professional women who have experienced trauma and abuse can share their stories, feel supported, and learn from one another. Redeem Thyself hopes to inspire women to recognize and acknowledge their abilities as professional and accomplished women and to embrace those abilities in every aspect of their lives. Purpose
The purpose of Redeem Thyself is to give professional women who have experienced trauma and abuse a voice and a place to be heard without judgment. Redeem Thyself is a platform for women to support, encourage, and inspire one another as we move towards a peaceful, loving, and fulfilling life.

For much of my life, I think I understood strength through endurance. How much could I carry? How long could I keep goin...
09/26/2026

For much of my life, I think I understood strength through endurance. How much could I carry? How long could I keep going? Could I remain composed? Could I solve the problem? Could I still show up and do what needed to be done? Gentleness didn't seem particularly useful in that equation.

I'm thinking about it differently now. There is a kind of strength involved in remaining tender after life has given you reasons not to be. There is strength in listening without immediately needing to fix something, in choosing not to become cruel because someone was cruel to you, and even in learning to speak to yourself with a little less judgment.

I am careful with this thought because I don't want gentleness to become another expectation, especially for people who have already been expected to absorb too much. I don't think being gentle means tolerating what hurts us. Maybe sometimes gentleness is exactly what allows us to say, No. This cannot continue.

I haven't completely sorted out the relationship between gentleness and strength yet, but I find myself thinking about it more and more.

Where have you seen gentleness and strength living together? Tell me about it, or leave a 🌿 for someone whose quiet strength has stayed with you.

Kindly ~ julie

I have been called brave before, and I never quite know what to do with that word. From the outside, some of my choices ...
09/25/2026

I have been called brave before, and I never quite know what to do with that word. From the outside, some of my choices probably do look brave. From where I was standing, most of them felt frightening, uncertain, and occasionally like I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.

Maybe that's why I am uncomfortable with the polished version of courage. The version where someone conquers fear, makes the difficult choice, and walks confidently into her new life. I don't recognize myself there.

I recognize the woman who is afraid and makes the appointment anyway. The woman who tells one more piece of the truth and then wonders for three days whether she should have. The woman who sits at the harp knowing she may hear everything she can no longer do. The woman who starts writing a book without knowing exactly what she is going to discover about herself while writing it.

Maybe brave and afraid aren't opposites. I seem to carry quite a lot of both.

What is one thing you've done while you were still afraid? Tell me about it, or leave a 🦋 for the courage nobody else saw.

Kindly ~ julie

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I'm not sure there was ever a moment when I thought, I'm healing.It has been much less obvious than that. I think I star...
09/24/2026

I'm not sure there was ever a moment when I thought, I'm healing.

It has been much less obvious than that. I think I started recognizing it afterward, in things that seemed almost too small to count. I said no and didn't immediately change my mind. I noticed myself explaining something and stopped because I realized I didn't actually owe an explanation. I went somewhere because I wanted to go. I allowed myself to practice the harp longer because I was enjoying it, not because I needed to accomplish something.

There are other days when I don't feel particularly different at all. Old thoughts return. Old fears are surprisingly loud. Something happens and I respond in exactly the way I thought I had moved beyond, which can be incredibly frustrating.

Maybe that's why I'm less interested now in asking whether I am healed and more interested in noticing what is changing. Even when the change is ridiculously small.

Finish the sentence for yourself: “I knew I was healing when...” Share yours below if you want to, or leave a 🌿 for one of the small changes nobody else sees.

Kindly ~ julie

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I believe this. I also don't know that I live as though I believe it.That contradiction has been bothering me lately. I ...
09/23/2026

I believe this. I also don't know that I live as though I believe it.

That contradiction has been bothering me lately. I can write about worth. I can look at another person and know without hesitation that her value has nothing to do with what she accomplished that day. Then I look at my own day and start counting. What did I finish? What did I write? Did I practice? Did I exercise? Did I work on the project? Did I use the day well? Apparently, I have a very different grading system for myself.

I have spent much of my life being productive, and I am proud of much of what that productivity created. I don't want to dismiss any of it. But I am curious about who I am when there isn't something to show for the day. That question is harder for me than I would like it to be. I think I'll probably be sitting with this one for a while.

How would you finish this sentence: “Even when I accomplish nothing today, I am still...” ? Leave a ❤️ if you're pondering that one with me.

Kindly ~ julie

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Trust is something I usually think about in relationship to other people. Do I trust this person? Do I believe what they...
09/22/2026

Trust is something I usually think about in relationship to other people. Do I trust this person? Do I believe what they are telling me? Do I feel safe enough to let them know something about me? It took me a surprisingly long time to realize that I had stopped trusting myself in many of those same ways.

I questioned what I remembered. I questioned whether something was really as bad as I thought it was. I questioned my reactions. I questioned whether I was being unfair. I could make significant professional decisions and lead other people without much hesitation, yet when something became personal, I could suddenly become remarkably unsure of myself.

I still do this. I want to be careful not to write as though I don't.

But I am beginning to notice moments when my first instinct is to believe myself instead of immediately putting myself on trial. Those moments are still small enough that I notice them afterward and think, Well, that was different.

Maybe trust comes back that quietly. I don't know yet.

What part of yourself are you beginning to trust again? Share a word with me, or leave a 🌱 if you're still finding your answer.

Kindly ~ julie

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Peace is a word I use differently than I once did. I used to think of it mostly as the absence of conflict. If everyone ...
09/21/2026

Peace is a word I use differently than I once did. I used to think of it mostly as the absence of conflict. If everyone was okay, nobody was upset, and nothing was falling apart, then things were peaceful. Looking back, I can see how much work I sometimes did to create that version of peace. I'm not sure I would call it peace anymore.

The peace I am beginning to recognize doesn't always require everything around me to be settled. Sometimes it is sitting quietly in my own home and realizing I don't need to anticipate what is coming next. Sometimes it is walking among the trees and noticing that my mind has been quiet for a few minutes. Sometimes it is making a decision that someone else may not like and discovering that I can still live with myself afterward.

I don't experience that all the time. Not even close. But I recognize it now when it happens, and I don't think I always could before.

What does peace mean to you now, and has that definition changed? Leave a 🕊️ if you're still figuring it out, too.

Kindly ~ julie

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I have always known how to work hard. Sometimes I think I know how to work hard better than I know how to do almost anyt...
09/20/2026

I have always known how to work hard. Sometimes I think I know how to work hard better than I know how to do almost anything else. I worked through school, motherhood, music, degrees, research, leadership, and years when things happening in my personal life probably should have brought everything else to a stop. Somehow, I just kept going.

That makes this quote complicated for me now. I still believe in hard work. I like working hard. I like the satisfaction of taking an idea and actually doing something with it. But I am also beginning to question how often I have used work as proof that I was okay. If I could keep producing, achieving, helping, accomplishing, then maybe nothing was really wrong. Or maybe I didn't have to look too closely at what was wrong.

I don't want to lose the part of me that works hard. I like her. I just don't want her to have to carry quite so much anymore. I'm not entirely sure what that looks like yet.

What is your relationship with hard work these days? Drop a 💭 if this gives you something to think about.

Kindly ~ julie

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I don't particularly enjoy waiting. I like answers. I like plans. I like knowing what happens next. Healing has been ext...
09/19/2026

I don't particularly enjoy waiting. I like answers. I like plans. I like knowing what happens next. Healing has been extremely uncooperative in that regard.

There are questions I have carried into therapy more than once. Memories I have turned around from every direction I know. Things I want to understand about myself that still seem to answer with silence.

My instinct is usually to work harder at them. Read more. Think more. Write more. Analyze more. And yet some understanding seems to arrive when I have stopped demanding it. A thought while walking. Something I suddenly hear differently in a conversation. A sentence I wrote months ago that somehow makes sense now. I don't know why some answers need time. I'm not even sure waiting is what creates them.

Maybe we simply become ready to hear something we couldn't hear before. I'll probably keep pondering that while wishing the answers would hurry up.

Is there a question you've learned to live with for a while? You don't have to tell us the question. A ⏳ is enough.

Kindly ~ julie

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Capability has never really been my problem. I know how to work. I know how to build things. I know how to research some...
09/18/2026

Capability has never really been my problem. I know how to work. I know how to build things. I know how to research something until I understand it. I know how to organize an idea and turn it into a program. Give me a challenge and there is a very good chance I will immediately begin figuring out how to solve it.

What I haven't always known is which of my capabilities actually belong in the life I want now. That feels like a different question. Just because I can do something doesn't necessarily mean I want to keep doing it. And just because I was once very good at something doesn't mean it still has to define me.

I find myself thinking about this more as I write, play music, and build the projects that matter to me now. Maybe capability isn't only about what we can do. Maybe there is something important about choosing where we place it. I'm still sorting that out.

What is one ability or part of yourself you want to make more room for these days?

Kindly ~ julie

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I've been thinking about relationships differently lately. We talk so much about relationships with other people. Who we...
09/17/2026

I've been thinking about relationships differently lately. We talk so much about relationships with other people. Who we trust. Who we love. Who feels safe. Who listens. Who stays. I rarely thought about having a relationship with myself. And when I do think about it, I have questions.

Do I listen to myself? Do I believe myself? Do I notice when I am tired? Do I make room for what I want, even when someone else might not understand it?

Some of my answers are better than they used to be. Some aren't. Maybe that is why this idea of healing as a relationship interests me. Relationships aren't completed. They change. They require attention. Sometimes they get messy. Apparently, I am going to be in this particular relationship for the rest of my life. I'm still figuring out what I want that to look like.

Reflection: If your relationship with yourself could ask for one thing today, what might it ask for?

Kindly ~ julie

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