The Unquiet Page

Fire & Truth

Words from the middle of it.
Not the other side.

Essays, reflections, open letters, and honest stories about healing, foster care, adoption, identity, and the hard work of becoming who you were always meant to be.

Saraphina Mare Saraphina Mare

Nicks Mix: How Stevie Healed Me.

There are songs you know. And then there are songs that find you when you need them most. Landslide found me on the way to work one morning and cracked something open. What followed was a playlist called Nicks Mix, a healing room I built with my own hands, and the slow, messy, beautiful release of everything I had been holding inside my body for years. This is that story.

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