Welcome to Healing in Real Time
Hi friend,
I’m Lexi, and I’m so grateful you’re here.
This space was born from a need to tell the truth. Not the polished, post-recovery kind of truth, but the messy, in-progress kind. The type that lives in the body, in the blur, in the ache of becoming.
I live with an assortment of mental health diagnoses. I’m a mother of two, a trauma survivor, a student of addiction counseling, and a woman who’s lost entire seasons of her life to dissociation and emotional intensity. I write because I need to. Because healing doesn’t happen in hindsight, it happens in real time.
Healing in Real Time is a blog about truth-telling, boundaries, and becoming whole. It’s not polished. It’s not post-recovery. It’s raw, reflective, and rooted in the body. I write about parenting while healing, navigating relationships through rupture and repair, and reclaiming memory through creative expression.
This space is for anyone who’s still unraveling. Still remembering. Still learning how to breathe through it.
You don’t have to be “healed” to belong here. You just have to be human.
I’m Lexi.
I live with Borderline Personality Disorder. I’m a mother of two, a trauma survivor, and someone who’s lost entire stretches of life to dissociation, emotional intensity, and silence. I’ve spent years trying to make sense of what I couldn’t remember, what I couldn’t explain, and what I was never given the language for.
This blog is part of my healing. Not the kind that comes after the storm, but the kind that happens while it’s still raining. I write because I need to. Because there are truths I’ve carried alone for too long. Because I want to speak from the middle, not the end.
I’m learning how to set boundaries. How to stay present. How to parent while healing. How to forgive myself for the years I disappeared. I’m not here to offer advice or answers. I’m here to tell the truth about what it’s like to survive, and to keep surviving.
If you’re here, maybe you’re surviving too. I hope my words help you feel less alone.
