Cutting the Strings is all about identifying, exploring and breaking ties with the ideas, beliefs and patterns that keep us small and silent. 

By age 26, I found that I had become a marionette. I had learned to bow to others’ whims and abandon my intuition to keep them from discovering what I already knew to be true: that I wasn’t good enough. The strings of not speaking my mind and adjusting myself to meet others’ expectations began as lifelines to which I clung to insulate myself from the judgment that I deeply feared. As time went on, those practices became patterns, and the strings that had once provided a protective cushioning became a confining apparatus. I found myself frozen in fear, waiting for those strings to propel me towards the action that I “should” take to keep me safe, simultaneously drawing me further from the honesty and connection that I deeply desired. 

Cutting the Strings documents my ongoing journey as I cut those strings, one by one, and rebuild a relationship with myself that enables me to live with integrity and intention. I hope that in these stories of healing you find comfort, companionship and hope.