Kirsten Corley
Writer living in Hoboken, NJ with my 2 dogs.
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When You Stop Letting Your Trauma Define You, You’ll Heal
If you look at trauma or the person who inflicted pain upon you through lenses with empathy and understanding, that is the gateway to healing. If you look at someone who has hurt you or tried to, you’ll see someone who is hurting all the same. Hurt people, hurt people. If feelings still arise of…
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Through The Right Relationship Your Real Friends Will Reveal Themselves
When you finally find the right partner, your life is going to change for the better. In the right kind of love, it will help you to reveal the best parts of yourself, as well as the parts that need a little bit of improvement. But what you’ll also learn through love is which other…
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It’s Okay If You’ve Forgotten What Love Is Suppose To Feel Like
It’s okay if your heart aches for something you don’t even remember anymore. Longing for love, which seems like it might have skipped you along the way. And you’re watching, waiting, and hoping for something and anything. It’s okay if your heart is still healing from a past love you thought was the one, only…
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15 Micro-Moments That Will Prove You Are Exactly Who & Where You Need To Be In Life
1. When losing a friendship doesn’t mean you have gained an enemy. As you grow up and mature and find your own path, what you’ll begin to realize that some people from your past just don’t fit into your future. Maybe it’s you merely drift apart, walking away with that knowledge and acceptance. Maybe you…
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They Are Going To Miss You
Sometimes people miss the way you made them feel about themselves.
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This Is What No One Talks About After A Breakup
No one talks about how loud silence is when the person you want to hear from most doesn’t reach out.
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When You’re The Girl Who Is Too Familiar With Love That Leaves
When you’re the girl who is too familiar with a love that leaves what you learn to appreciate and admire are every relationship you see that’s good, that lasts because it’s those people that give you hope.
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I’ve Learned Lately It’s About Choosing Yourself
I’ve learned lately that we are all going to miss someone at some point and it doesn’t make you weak it just proves love was real even in their absence.
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Maybe I Needed To Lose
Maybe I needed to lose what felt like everything at the time to realize I still had a lot. Maybe I needed to lose myself along the way to realize who I wanted to be and finally take the proper steps towards getting there. Maybe I needed to hit rock bottom both hard and fast…
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The Aftermath Of Breaking Up With Someone Who Has Anxiety
When you break up with someone with an anxiety disorder, it doesn’t end at the breakup; there is a whole other storm that follows, where it’s the individual against themselves.
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And When They Come Back, Don’t Forget How They Left
I want you to remember how long you stared at your phone hoping it would ring only it didn’t.
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I Hope You Find Peace In His Absence
I hope you find yourself again in all this chaos and heartbreak. I hope you fall back into the things you love about life and not just the part of your life you loved someone. I hope you learn to like walking alone and realize you don’t have to be lonely doing so.
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Finding Love In God’s Roadblocks
Heartbreak. Rejection. Failure. All these determinants at the moment don’t feel like blessings in disguise but that’s exactly what they are. Learning to trust God’s plan when you’re simply trying to take it one step at a time is hard. The pain we feel within us, the uncertainty, the patience that is growing wary and…
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A Thank You Letter To My Exes Mother, We Need More Men In The World Like Your Son
I mumbled, ‘thank you God’ in many prayers more times than I could count on Sundays. But I never got a chance to thank you for raising the type of man he is and became and meant to me in the time we were together. Someone whose word was something I could rely on. Someone…
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To The Teacher Whose Heart Is Breaking
When I was little I looked up to my teachers, thinking they had all the answers. Thinking once I grew up I’d know as much as they did and things would be easy. The struggles one deals with between academia, friendships, relationships, family a balancing act of it all, I thought I’d grow up and…
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Dating In 2019
He says he tells his sister he’s dating someone. And I guess that’s what it is. And I’ve always been a firm believer in calling things what they are and I don’t know why I’m suddenly so afraid of labels trying to minimize this. Something about a title, exclusivity, losing freedom but gaining someone’s loyalty…
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The Single Factor In Relationships That Love Can’t Beat
Timing. I wrote a while back soul mates that find their way back into each other’s lives after fives years. And messages still fill my inbox asking if we are still together. People in love desperately looking for something to hold onto which is a blind faith that the things they feel deeply are enough…
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This Is How You Ruin Your Own Life Based On Your Birth Month
July - You ruin your life going back to the people who hurt you.