It has been eight months since I last sat down to write… and not because I didn’t want to, but because life once again had other plans for me. These past months have not just been difficult… they have been consuming in a way that is hard to fully explain unless you’ve lived it. There are moments in this journey where you feel like you are finally gaining some control, like maybe, just maybe, you are learning how to live alongside the pain instead of constantly being overtaken