It's been a long journey


Dear Acorn was born from the quiet aftermath of the many storms I endured from being divorced. I lived for years in survival mode that felt both too heavy and too hollow, when surviving took everything and there was little left of me for becoming. Writing became my way through it — a place to give shape to what hurt, and to find the woman still buried underneath the dark soil.


From the start, I knew I wanted to help divorced women. I experience the pain, I felt it as a mother and a woman.   


I created Dear Acorn as the shelter I needed — a gentle space for divorced moms learning, healing, and planting new roots. A place to rest before the next chapter, to rediscover strength, and to remember that even after the hardest seasons, we still bloom.


I found healing in writing. This was a talent that had been buried, that immediately emerged from the pain.   

 “Storms make trees grow deeper roots.”

           

I didn't go into my marriage thinking it would fail.  Going through a divorce is not easy and I will never say that it is. I'm sure there are some people who have amicable divorced, who co-parent with your ex, but there are a lot of us whose lives are turned upside down.    It can feel like the worst storm you have even endured of your life where you don’t know which way is up or down. You will have the person who vowed to love you belittle you, tear you down, come at you with hate and use your children against you.


But, even in the worst of times, there is joy, there is love, and there is the emerging of the woman and the mother you were meant to be. It is a true transformation.   


Just like the acorn, I had to patiently wait for the work to be done to grow. And, patience was never my virtue. This project has been a journey with the message always the same, “I want to help other women going through a horrible divorce.” It’s taken years, stacks of notes, tears, and many emotions, but through all of it, I rose the woman I was destined to become - the women I can be proud of and the woman who will raise my daughter to be her true self.  


Over time, I began to understand what the oak had been trying to show me, the truth about strength. Like Dolly Parton says, “Storms make trees grow deeper roots.” 


Love,

Talya

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This is just the beginning!


Whether you’re just trying to survive the day or beginning to feel the first signs of blooming again, this is your place to pause, to breathe, and to remember your strength. You are not behind. You are becoming—and you’re already growing new roots.


New projects are taking shape and I'm exciting to share them with you.  We've weathered the storm. Now, it's time to rest in the forest. 


Welcome home!