Written by Dhylles Victoria, Writer and Author of Relentless Reinvention: From Breaking Point to Breakthrough There’s a persistent myth woven into the way we talk about growth—the idea that one day, we will finally “figure ourselves out.” That we will arrive at a complete, stable version of who we are, and from there, life will…

Emotions are tools of the mind. They are neither positive nor negative. They just are. It’s how we acknowledge, manage, and express them that makes them helpful or unhelpful. I learned this the hard way over years of being told that I was too emotional. This typically came from men (bosses and husbands), and more…

Are you a reader?  Are you a writer? Are you both? I’m both!  I love words, pure and simple.  I love reading them, watching them dance across the page, conjuring images in my mind.  I love writing them, ideas from my mind flowing through me, out of my fingers onto the page! How about you? …

I’m in my forties now. I thought, “What would I tell twenty-year-old me?” So, for all the twenty-somethings and even thirty-somethings, this is for you! Sharing a little life wisdom from life lived, from my mistakes and victories. Enjoy that metabolism of an Olympic athlete. You will miss it when you are 40! Not that…

My mother used to say, “What’s the worst they can say?” No. She would say, ” You don’t know unless you ask! It hurts, and we get nervous; the fear of rejection is real. Quite often, it keeps us in the same place. We are too scared to move forward. No is not always a…

There’s something about spring that doesn’t ask for permission; it just arrives. Soft at first, almost unnoticeable, and then all at once everything is blooming, everything is stretching toward the sun, everything is reminding you that starting over is not only possible, it’s natural. Spring, for me, isn’t just a season. It’s an invitation. An…

We went to the Moon and back, and I am still not over it. I didn’t expect to feel it this deeply. I thought I would just watch a mission, another scientific milestone, another moment for history books. But somewhere between launch and splashdown, between the silence of re-entry and the relief of safe return,…

I am six years away from being an empty nester; however, I had my first son at twenty-two and the last a decade later. While I am fully aware these six years will have moments that move too quickly and days that drag on, I have no idea what it is like to be an…

Is it too late to get a do-over? Maybe, but maybe not. George Clooney’s last line in the movie, Jay Kelly, is “Can I go again?” Was he wanting to see himself on the big screen again, or was he wanting a do-over? This isn’t a persuasive piece as there is no aim to bend…

I’m proud of how far I’ve come since I published my first book in 2020. I’ve now published 5 books, and as an indie author who self-publishes, it takes me on a whole journey where I have to do a lot more than just write. So, here’s a little description of a journey to publication,…