What if everything you believed about love, worth, and acceptance… wasn’t true?

For years, I thought my value was tied to what I achieved. That being good enough, successful enough, or believing the “right” things was the key to being loved. And I worked hard to prove my worth.

But what happens when you start to question the rules? When you realize love might not be as unconditional as you thought? When the expectations you’ve spent your life trying to meet start feeling more like chains?

This conversation gets personal. I’m opening up about:

The weight of growing up under religious pressure

The pressure to be “good” to be loved

The hardest realization my mom ever had about me

And what unconditional love really looks like—for ourselves and our kids

And the moment that cha ...