005 - Choosing Peace Over Tradition

Some of the hardest decisions you will ever make are the ones nobody else will understand, and you make them anyway.In this episode, Vanessa opens her journal to the day they buried her father, a day she spent not in a church pew but on a lake in a fishing boat, in the place where she always felt closest to him. What looks like a daughter who didn't show up is really a story about a woman who chose peace over obligation, grace over expectation, and a last memory of her father laughing at her for wearing makeup on a fishing trip over one of him lying still in a casket. Vanessa traces what her father meant to her, the one consistent man in her life who never stopped telling her she was enough.If you have ever chosen yourself and had to sit quietly with other people's disappointment, this one is for you.Please follow us on:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/therapistafterdarkconfessionsTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@therapistafterdarkpodAlso don't forget to follow on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!