This is our first guest post from a woman, and Tomoko’s story embodies everything this community stands for—raw honesty on life’s challenges. At 58, she’s spent five years navigating breast cancer, from a diagnosis that came with no warning signs to learning that “survival” really…
We all break sometimes. Relationships end, dreams dissolve, and futures change in ways we never planned. If you’re feeling shattered by someone’s leaving, by someone’s choice to build their life elsewhere, you’re not alone. Sometimes being broken is proof that what you had was real.
You don’t need a degree to sit with someone in their grief. You need to have been there. What if your hardest-won lessons are the very things that qualify you to offer the only genuine help that matters? Exploring how pain becomes an unexpected credential.