True story. I cooked, cleaned & paid bills in my daughter’s house. She said, “If you can’t work, what’s the point of you being here?”

and had their own children.

You are allowed to rest now.

You are allowed to say no.

You are allowed to leave a kitchen that isn’t yours and go somewhere that is.

You are not a solution to someone else’s problem.

You never were.

You are a person with a body that gets tired and a heart that needs to be treated gently.

And you deserve to be in spaces where that continue reading …