pippa goualin
healing. reclaiming. living out loud
FInd your way back to you
I share the things I'm learning as I rebuild my life after abuse, reconnect with myself and intentionally create a life that feels like mine again.
Some of it is heavy. Some of it is healing. Some of it is me dancing barefoot somewhere because joy counts too.
Understand
Making sense of abuse, unhealthy relationship dynamics and the things we sometimes don't recognise while we're living through them.
Heal
The messy, non-linear reality of grief, recovery, self-trust and learning to feel safe within yourself again.
Reclaim
Boundaries. Voice. Identity. Confidence. Learning to choose yourself without explaining or apologising for it.
Live
Motherhood. Faith. Travel. Movement. Creativity. Joy. And building a life that actually feels like yours.
A little about me:
I'm a mum, sister, friend, survivor, recovering people-pleaser, occasional overthinker and a woman figuring out what it means to really choose herself.
For years, I was very good at building a life that looked successful from the outside. Career. Business. Home. Marriage. All the things you're apparently supposed to want. And then life unravelled.
What I'm building now feels different.
I'm learning about abuse, healing, boundaries, self-trust and the parts of myself I lost along the way. I'm travelling more. Dancing more. Creating again. Saying no more. And trying, imperfectly, to build my life around what actually matters to me.
I'm sharing that journey here because somewhere out there is another woman asking some of the same questions I was. Maybe that's you. READ MY STORY