If you had to describe your ideal life, what would it look like?

My ideal life is to be happy with my partner. To be able to see my family and friends regularly. I would like to take one big trip a year. I like being able to write regularly. It has done a lot for my mental health. I hope I am able to support myself someday with it, so my partner can be less stressed. I want to not have to worry about money when making decisions.

Life for me is about experiences, not so much having. I want to be able to relax in my home again and not be bogged down by the past. The animals being given free range of the house and yard.

I want to love more freely again. After years of pain and disappointment while trying to come to terms with so much trauma, it would be great to finally move past it all and live for today again. I have been trying, but there are some daily reminders that still need to be dealt with.

I would like to live as myself, not the shell I have become. I am somewhere trapped inside all the pain. This too shall pass and I will come through on the other side. It will happen, just need to keep working towards it.