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I'm a lover and a fighter. I'm like that reel that says, "You're beautiful and capable of great things." I'm an introvert that has spurts of extrovertness. I'm just this multi-faceted person that ebbs and flows as life does.
After crawling out of the hole from battling depression and thoughts of suicide from my intense grief, I started to re-learn who I truly was down to my core - past my people pleasing tendencies, past my trauma and past my...well, past.

In that journey, I discovered someone beautiful.

I discovered me.

about

hi, i'm charlene

I reference my journey with grief a lot because it's one of the core events in my life that shaped me. It was the catalyst of both the death of my old self and the discovery of my true self. The realization that I didn't even know who I was almost put me into a different, yet deeper hole.

But, as is tattooed on my skin, God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers (cliche, I know), and so I fought. I fought for the girl I was and who I'd never be again. I fought for the woman who lost so much and survived so much more. I fought for the woman I was capable of being, the woman whose potential has no limitations.

I fought for me.

And this space is part of that new adventure.

I reference my journey with grief a lot because it's one of the core events in my life that shaped me. It was the catalyst of both the death of my old self and the discovery of my true self. The realization that I didn't even know who I was almost put me into a different, yet deeper hole. But, as is tattooed on my skin, God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers (cliche, I know), and so I fought. I fought for the girl I was and who I'd never be again. I fought for the woman who lost so much and survived so much more. I fought for the woman I was capable of being, the woman whose potential has no limitations.
I fought for me.
And this space is part of that new adventure.