As recently posted in the Emma Joy Weekly Newsletter
Beauty from Ashes
Hello, everyone.
Today I would like to address something that commonly trips many people up: the choices they have made in the past.
I’d like to start out with saying that every single person you meet has made choices you know nothing about, has dealt with losses and crosses you aren’t aware of, and has gone through circumstances that have shaped their character for better or worse depending on how they handled them.
I experienced self-hatred and gnawing guilt for several years of my life. I saw myself through the lens of what

