I am a 30 year old woman who finally realized that “there are no rules” to building a life you love.

I grew up in the Southwest Chicago suburbs. We spent every night playing in the backyard with other neighborhood kids catching lightning bugs and doing whatever other shenanigans we thought up.

While I am certain now that other kids had similar struggles and issues (many of them worse than mine), parental illness, death, and growing pains left me feeling isolated. I have spent well over a decade working on the negative coping skills developed during those high-school years. And in college, I fell deeper into the trenches of those bad habits.

Once I graduated college in 2018, I decided it was time to start working on rebuilding my broken soul.

To start on a journey of healing feels like a rebellion against everything you’ve known, rebelling against who you are and the version of yourself that has kept you safe. But safety is not the same as happiness. It is not the same as thriving. It is stagnant.

I hope Rebalyn is a candle in the darkness for those trying to find a way back to the light. And a spark for those who want to want to ignite healing in themselves.

Thank you,

B