Ragdoll Reclaimed

06/22/2026

I am beginning to believe that healing doesn’t happen in grand gestures. Sometimes it happens on a random night out with an unexpected friend.

This weekend reminded me of something I had forgotten.

People listened when I spoke!
They looked at me instead of their phones!

They laughed with me, asked me questions, and genuinely seemed interested in what I had to say!

Maybe I was just the “new person” in the room, the shiny new toy everyone hadn’t met before: but honestly, after everything I’ve been through, I’ll take the reminder.

For so long, I convinced myself that maybe I was boring. Maybe I wasn’t fun anymore. Maybe I was too much, or not enough. After spending so many years in relationships where I felt unseen, unheard, and eventually left behind while they built a life that no longer included me, it’s easy to start believing those things about yourself.

But this reminded me that none of that is true.

I’m not boring. I’m not dull. I’m not lazy. I do know how to laugh. I do know how to have fun. I do have qualities that people are drawn to.

The difference is that I need to be around people who are kind and caring to me. People who make me feel safe enough to be myself. When you’re constantly protecting your heart, it’s hard to let your personality shine. But when you’re with people who genuinely care, it’s amazing how much of yourself comes back.

Thank you for standing beside me, for believing in me when I struggled to believe in myself, and for reminding me that there are still good people in this world.

I’m sorry I can’t always be more right now. Healing isn’t a straight line, and some days are still incredibly hard. But your patience, your encouragement, and your friendship have meant more than you probably realize.

Thank you for seeing me; for all that I am, all that I’ve survived, and all that I can still become, even on my worst days!!

Maybe this wasn’t just a night out.

Maybe it was the first time in a long time that I remembered who I am and I know how great she really is!!

06/22/2026

Some nights are more than concerts. They’re healing.

I’ve loved Evanescence since the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Long before streaming, long before playlists, there was a voice that somehow found the words I couldn’t.

Amy Lee’s voice has always been hauntingly beautiful, but it was never just the music that kept me coming back. It was the lyrics. They met me in some of the darkest seasons of my life, gave words to emotions I didn’t know how to explain, and reminded me that there was beauty even in heartbreak.

Twenty-plus years later, here I am again… and somehow those songs are still finding me exactly when I need them most.

Standing in Atlanta, listening to songs that have carried me through so many chapters of my life, felt almost surreal.

This concert was different, though.

A few months ago, we lost our dear friend, Brandy. Evanescence was one of her favorite bands, and as the music filled the arena, there were moments when I caught myself smiling through tears because I could almost imagine her singing right along with us. Some songs hit a little harder knowing she wasn’t standing beside us, but somehow it also felt like she was.

The four of us who went have all experienced tremendous loss recently. We each carried our own grief into that arena. For a few hours, we cried, sang at the top of our lungs, laughed, hugged, and remembered the people we wish could still be here.

Music has an incredible way of doing that. It reminds us that grief is just love with nowhere to go. It gives us permission to feel everything at once: heartbreak, gratitude, nostalgia, hope and somehow leaves us a little lighter than when we arrived.

So thank you, Amy Lee, and the incredible band Evanescence, for creating music that has been the soundtrack to so many chapters of my life. Thank you for writing songs that have helped me survive more than once. And thank you for giving us a night where healing didn’t have to be quiet.

Some concerts entertain you.

Some concerts stay with you forever.

This one reminded me that even after unimaginable loss, music still has the power to make us feel alive.

❤️🖤

06/22/2026

05/31/2026

Ica’s first grooming day and she handled it like a little queen. Her puppy curls were precious, but now she can finally see the world …. thanks to Trey for making her even more beautiful!

05/24/2026

Royal Rudie

05/24/2026

Pet Fantasy Photographs for my Royal Rudie!

Not a day goes by that I don’t miss you!!








Sharon Carter Terry

05/24/2026

👑✨ Royal Rudie 👑✨

I decided to play around with some fantasy portrait editing and turn my beautiful girl into the regal queen she always believed she was.

Honestly… Rudie never walked into a room like a normal dog anyway.

She entered like royalty.

Queen of the couch.
Protector of stuffed bears.
Collector of snacks.
Ruler of my entire heart. 💜

All hail Royal Regal Rudie

05/24/2026

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