Me Reclaimed

09/18/2026

What happens when a long battle may finally be over—but some part of you is still bracing?

Yesterday may have been my last custody hearing.

Today, I’m thinking less about what happened in the courtroom and more about what happens after years of conflict—when the external demands begin to recede, but our inner lives haven’t necessarily caught up.

What do we do with all the energy that was once required simply to survive?

This question feels especially significant as I turn my attention back to completing Me Reclaimed, the manuscript I began nearly a decade ago.

My new essay explores the space between survival and reclamation—and the possibility of discovering what becomes possible when more of our lives are finally returned to us.

When the Battle Ends Before Your Body Knows It

On what happens when a long period of conflict ends—and the work of reclaiming our lives begins

09/09/2026

As I return to Me Reclaimed, I keep coming back to what reclamation actually means.

It isn’t about inventing a stronger, better, more healed version of ourselves.

It’s about remembering and reclaiming the self that was there all along—the parts we may have learned to silence, diminish, or abandon in order to belong.

This is increasingly becoming the heart of Me Reclaimed.

Reclamation isn’t becoming someone new. It’s returning to yourself.

09/02/2026

Sometimes healing isn’t about becoming someone new.

It’s about recognizing how much of ourselves we learned to abandon in order to keep the peace, maintain relationships, earn approval, or belong.

As I return to Me Reclaimed, the manuscript I began nearly a decade ago, I’m thinking more deeply about what happens after harmful relationships—and the long process of separating who we are from who we learned to be in order to survive.

My latest essay: The Self We Abandon in Order to Belong

Read it on Live Aligned⁠:

On adaptation, survival, and the long process of recognizing ourselves again

08/29/2026

I started writing Me Reclaimed nearly a decade ago.

At the time, I thought I was writing a book about surviving narcissistic abuse.

I understand the story differently now.

It is also about what happens afterward—when you begin separating who you are from who you learned to be in order to survive. When you stop organizing your life around other people’s perceptions, demands, distortions, and approval. When you begin coming home to yourself.

I put the manuscript aside more than once because I was still living parts of the story I was trying to understand.

Now, after completing You Are the Sky, I’m returning to Me Reclaimed with the intention of finally completing it.

And I’m returning to this page, too.

When I created Me Reclaimed years ago, I was writing from a very different place in my life. Rather than erase that earlier voice, I’m leaving much of it here as part of the record. Reclamation isn’t about pretending the past didn’t happen. It’s about understanding it differently from where we stand now.

Going forward, I’ll be sharing reflections here on narcissistic abuse, healing, identity, sensitivity, boundaries, self-trust, mindfulness, and what it means to build a life that increasingly belongs to you—not simply as subjects I’ve studied, but as terrain I’ve lived.

Me Reclaimed began as a book about what happened to me.

I think it may ultimately be a book about who remained underneath it all.

If you’ve ever had to find your way back to yourself after spending years adapting to someone else, you’re welcome here. 💜

—Pria

06/03/2026

I didn’t set out to write a book.

I set out to create something I wish I had when I was younger.

A gentle place to rest.

A reminder that sensitivity is not a flaw to fix.

A quiet voice that says:

You are not too much.

You are not alone.

You belong exactly as you are.

You Are the Sky began with a simple question:

What would it feel like to move through the world with a little more kindness toward ourselves?

This book is for sensitive souls and the inner children we are still learning to care for.

Coming soon. 🌅

05/30/2026

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨

After a year of writing, illustrating, revising, and reflecting, I’m finally ready to share the cover of my next book.

🌿 You Are the Sky
Rest • Reflect • Reconnect

This book is an invitation to slow down in a world that often feels too fast.

Through gentle reflections, nature-inspired imagery, and moments of pause, it offers a place to breathe, reconnect, and remember the quiet strength that has always been within you.

A reminder that:

🌿 Your feelings are not flaws.

🌿 Your sensitivity is not weakness.

🌿 Your quiet is powerful.

🌿 You are not too much.

🌿 You belong exactly as you are.

I created this book for sensitive souls of all ages—and for the inner children we are still learning to care for.

I can’t wait to share more in the coming weeks.

💜

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05/28/2026

For the past many months, I’ve been quietly working on an illustrated book called You Are the Sky: Rest, Reflect, and Reconnect.

What began as something deeply personal slowly grew into a gentle companion for sensitive and overwhelmed humans of all ages.

It’s a quiet book about belonging, overwhelm, rest, gentleness, and remembering that we do not have to become smaller in order to belong in this world.

The final illustrations and layout are now coming together, and it’s beginning to feel very real.

Hoping to share more soon. 🌿

05/26/2026

05/06/2026

Denver woke up to snow in May today.

Looking back at the warm spring days just before Bear passed on the Spring Equinox somehow makes them feel even more meaningful now.

Life changes quickly.
Seasons do too.

Grateful for every moment in the sun.
❄️🐾