Good morning, all

Welcome to my world.

This is my first blog here on the internet.

I've been using my Facebook page, deMichelle Writes, as my current medium. Once I'm satisfied, I will publish this page and continue blogging in this venue.

I am a published Author in the field of living with and surviving toxic relationships.

These books highlight my self-discovery and my struggle just to live. Confusion and anxiety have been a large part of my world from the moment that I was born. Going through each day, I hadn't any idea what was happening as I had no basis for comparison.

I did know that something was very, very wrong. Being in my early teens which is when I started noticing behaviors and silently assessing the people around me, I was convinced that it was I who was wrong. Much went on around me that left me unsettled. Much happened that was inexplicable. It's difficult to measure what are a genuine child's learning lessons from what was misbehavior of the toxic type. All I can do now is write about my life and hope to feel therapeutic healing from my words.

In the spring of 2020, thanks to covid, I lost my job, and I was afforded the opportunity to explore something that I believed might make sense for me. I have learned much about where I have been in life. Also, where I wanted to go. I am a better person for it.

It's a long slow climb but I'm climbing a little bit higher every day.

My first book, off the Dance Floor, the First Heat is a first-person journal of how I came to realize, in full, what I was dealing with in so many other relationships around me.

The second book, which is in process now, describes in more detail where I have been in my world and the starting of thoughts and ideas which would lead me in the right direction.

As of now, I know that my healing is still in process. I will continue to push forward, and I will continue to write. Let this be my therapy.