Self-Love with a Side of WTF

Hello, lovely humans.

If you’ve somehow stumbled into this corner of the internet, first of all: welcome. You’re officially in the right place if you’ve ever looked around at your life and thought:

“Wait… WTF just happened?”
or
“Who even am I anymore?”

I’m Martina — a recovering people-pleaser, overthinker-in-remission, and full-time human-in-progress. This space? It’s not a polished memoir. It’s more like a digital journal scribbled in the margins of my healing. Messy, honest, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking.

A Life Rewritten

Not too long ago, everything I knew — or thought I knew — shifted. After nearly two decades in a relationship that shaped most of my adult life, I found myself at a painful crossroads.

I’m not here to rehash the details or point fingers — this isn’t about blame. There is still a great deal of mutual respect and care that remains, and it will always be there. But now this is about me. About waking up alone and realizing I had become a stranger to myself. About crawling through grief and guilt, shame and sadness, and still choosing to keep going.

Months later, as the storm still lingered, I began choosing myself, perhaps for the first time ever.

The Basement of the Soul (Yep, I Went There)

When things fell apart, I didn’t bounce back with a glow-up and a green smoothie. I spiraled. I soul-searched. I ugly-cried on my kitchen floor more times than I care to admit. And somewhere in the middle of all that mess, something cracked open — and let the light in.

I started writing again. Not because I had answers, but because I had questions.
Not because I was healed, but because I was finally ready to heal.

What This Space Is (and Isn’t)

This blog isn’t a step-by-step guide to healing. It won’t tell you to manifest your dream life in 3 easy affirmations.
What it will do is tell the truth. My truth. Maybe yours, too.

It’s for:

• The raw moments no one posts on Instagram.
• The beautiful breakdowns that come before breakthroughs.
• The days you feel like a warrior, and the ones where you barely get out of bed.

Where I’m At Now

I’m learning to trust myself again.
To set boundaries without guilt.
To make peace with my past — and create space for who I’m becoming.

There’s still a lot of WTF.
But there’s also clarity, courage, and so much hope.

So if you’re fumbling your way through healing, self-love, or just trying to figure out how to live a life that feels real and yours…

Pull up a chair.
There’s room for you here.

Let’s grow through this, together — one beautifully chaotic, WTF-filled step at a time.

With all my heart (and an occasional meltdown),
Martina 💫.