by Melissa McDaniel | Our Stories, Our Struggles
Have you ever wished to get in a car accident? I have made this wish, not once, not twice, but multiple times in my life. I did not want to die. In fact it was quite the opposite. I wanted to live in a world where I felt loved and cared for. Typically a car accident...
by Melissa McDaniel | Our Stories, Our Struggles
There I sat on the kitchen floor of my Rhode Island studio apartment ugly crying. The tears came out of nowhere (or so I thought) and the weight of the pain I felt pinned me to the floor. I tried to wipe away my tears with sudsy dishwater hands. Ouch! This only made...
by Melissa McDaniel | Our Stories, Our Struggles
The relentless echo… I wanted to run. I wanted to hide. I wanted to do anything except “be her.” You see, in 2018 this peculiar message began to echo in my mind, “If you do not see her, you have to be her!” I have NO clue where it came from. Google searching the words...