This is what I needed

When I finally took the step to get divorced, I felt alone.
There’s still a stigma around divorce.  Plus, my divorce wasn't the amicable kind.  It was, and continues to be, extremely high conflict.

For years, I lived in a loop of chronic stress. I was belittled, manipulated, and made to feel small. Worthless. Even now, remembering those years tightens my chest and brings tears to my eyes.

Seasons of the Acorn is what I needed when I was lying in that darkness.
It’s what I needed to move, slowly, through survival mode — when I couldn’t see my way out, when I couldn’t even imagine a future that felt safe or peaceful again.

Survival mode has a way of convincing you that stuck is where you belong.
It’s a deep, physical kind of frozen — your body knows it’s not safe, so it shuts everything down. You can’t rest, but you can’t move either. You just… exist.

I went into that place twice in the last five years. After the second time, I made a promise to myself: I will never go back there again — no matter what.

These seasonal guides are what I wish I’d had back then. They meet you where you are — in the fog, in the ache, in the stillness — and help you gently find your way out of survival mode.

Not with quick fixes or hollow inspiration, but with small, real ways to feel safe, to remember who you are, and to begin again.