Allow me to introduce myself

I wanted to formally introduce myself, again for some. My name is Hollie and I own Rooted Soul Apothecary and this is just the beginning…

I am a survivor. A strong, determined, ambitious survivor! I have so much C-PTSD over the course of my life. So much so that I spent years gaslighting myself that none of it really happened. No one would allow things like that to happen, right? No one would ever want to see someone endure so much pain, right? I lost faith in everyone around me, as well as myself. I learned how to block out the pain, the images of things that happened but in turn I became so dissociated that I had no clue what was even happening around me. I was beyond numb. I didn’t know who I was.

I sure as hell didn’t know it at the time but as I sit here looking back, I see how much 2019 was the catalyst for today’s path. That was the year that I tried to continue with the same old life that I had but life wanted to make me so uncomfortable that I had no choice but to begin to heal.

Words aren’t always the easiest for me since I have spent a lifetime not speaking them, not only holding them back but myself as well but not anymore! This is the start of my story…..

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