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How to Heal by Naming Your Core Wounds (Abandonment, Betrayal, Rejection, Shame)
You can’t fight an enemy you refuse to name. Shadowboxing With Pain For years I thought I was fighting anxiety, procrastination, burnout, people-pleasing, overthinking. But those weren’t the enemies. They were symptoms. Shadows. And I was shadowboxing — exhausting myself against opponents that were never the real threat. The truth? You can’t win a fight with an opponent you know nothing about. If you don’t name your wound, you’ll spend years fighting smoke instead of the fire

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
6 days ago3 min read


Why Saving People From Toxic Families Can Destroy You: The Hidden Self-Abandonment in Rescue Trauma
You can’t save people from toxic family systems when they’re still loyal to the chaos. Here’s why rescuing someone from the same trauma you escaped often ends in self-abandonment, depression, and spiritual damage.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Nov 214 min read


Standing at the Threshold: How to Let Life Redirect You Without Losing Yourself
For most of us, the most painful part of transformation isn’t the ending… it’s the space after the ending and before the new beginning. That silent, uncomfortable middle space where nothing feels stable yet. You’re not who you used to be —but you’re not fully who you’re becoming either. This is the threshold season. This is where most women panic. Because the threshold doesn’t give you answers — it gives you surrender. And surrender is terrifying when your identity was buil

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Nov 62 min read


The Art of Rotting — 5 Ways Doing Nothing Heals You
There’s one day a week where I rot. No TV. No music. No podcasts. No productivity. I don’t do laundry. I don’t run errands. I don’t answer messages. I just… exist. Some people would call this lazy. I used to call it lazy too — until I realized my body wasn’t asking for more hustle. It was begging me for silence. This practice of rotting saved me after burnout. It regulates my nervous system, restores my creativity, and reminds me that I’m human before I’m anything else. Here

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Nov 22 min read


How to Be Loyal to Yourself (When You’ve Always Been Loyal to Everyone Else)
Learn how to be loyal to yourself after years of over-giving and self-betrayal. The Pain Alchemist explores what real loyalty means and how to reclaim your energy through her Loyalty Reclamation Ritual.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Oct 303 min read


Hyper-Independence Is Unhealed Trust Trauma — We Weren’t Born Strong, We Were Conditioned to Survive
Hyper-independence isn’t strength. It’s unhealed trust trauma. Here’s why you learned to carry life alone — and how to begin healing without losing yourself.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Oct 203 min read


Decentering: How I Stopped Being a Chaser and Became an Attractor
Decentering is freedom. Freedom to redirect your energy toward what nourishes you instead of what drains you.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Oct 173 min read


8 Truths I Want to Speak to the Cycle Breaker in You
A powerful letter to every cycle breaker healing generational trauma. These 8 truths will remind you why your healing matters and why you must keep going.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Oct 153 min read


Radical Healing: The 3-Part Guide to Breaking Cycles When Gentle Healing Isn’t Enough
Gentle healing isn’t always enough. Discover Radical Healing: The 3-Part Guide — 5 signs you need it, what you stop doing, and what you start doing to finally break cycles of people-pleasing, toxic relationships, and self-abandonment.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Oct 133 min read


How to Heal When You’ve Been Carrying Life Alone for Too Long
Because even strong women deserve to be held. The Weight No One Sees There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being the...

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Oct 63 min read


How Childhood Wounds Shape the Way You Love (and How to Rewrite the Story)
The innocent girl was never really you — she was your shield. The Innocent Girl Was a Survival Strategy Deep down, you always knew. The...

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Oct 22 min read


Gentle Healing vs. Radical Healing: Knowing When It’s Time to Switch Paths
Gentle healing calms pain, but radical healing transforms it. Learn the difference, and how to know when it’s time to move from gentle to radical healing.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Sep 293 min read


Healing Is Not About Becoming Someone New — It’s About Remembering Who You Were Before You Had to Shrink
Healing isn’t about reinventing yourself. It’s about reclaiming the version of you that existed before the world told you to shrink, please, and stay silent.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Sep 252 min read


Unaliving the Good Girl in Me: How I am Integrating My Dark Side as an Empath
Discover why killing off the “good girl” is essential for empaths. Learn how integrating your dark feminine side creates balance, power, and freedom through raw, personal stories of healing and shadow work.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Sep 143 min read


How to Set Boundaries Without Feeling Like a Bad Person
Learn how to set boundaries without guilt. A soulful, strategic guide for empaths & people-pleasers ready to protect their energy without feeling selfish.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Aug 172 min read


7 signs you are self abandoning (AGAIN)
Let’s Be Honest for a Second Self-abandonment doesn’t always look like a dramatic “rock bottom.”Most of the time, it’s quiet. It hides in...

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Aug 122 min read


You Are Not Broken — You Were Just Never Held.
Introduction There’s a difference between being broken and being unseen . Between being damaged and being unheld . I used to think I was...

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Jul 133 min read


One Thing My Inner Child Was Desperately Screaming For (And How I Finally Gave It to Her)
I was the sweet, quiet girl—adjusted, strong, functioning. But deep inside me, a small child was crying out for something very simple: security. Not love, not success—but the feeling, "I'm safe here." In Angola, there was warmth, beach, freedom. In Germany, I was followed by coldness, duty, and silence. Today I know: I am the one my inner child has been waiting for. And I'm finally giving her what she's needed for so long.

Eny | The Pain Alchemist
Jun 304 min read
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