THE JOURNEY BACK TO ME
Victoria Reid
"I knew something wasn't right..."
During the last few years of my marriage I knew something wasn't right, but I couldn't explain it.
From the outside, my life and marriage looked successful. I was building a career, maintaining friendships, spending time with family, traveling, and showing up for others during some of their hardest seasons. But internally, I was struggling. I felt exhausted, disconnected, and increasingly unsure of myself.
Like many women, I carried a great deal of shame in silence. I minimized what was happening. I protected the relationship. I worried about what other people would think. I convinced myself that keeping the peace was more important than acknowledging the growing cost to my own well-being.
The turning point came when I started therapy.
I was simply trying to understand why I felt so depleted. As I began healing, the fog slowly started to lift. I began recognizing patterns I had overlooked for years. I discovered that what I was experiencing wasn't simply marital conflict. It was emotional abuse, rooted in narcissistic behaviors that had profoundly impacted my mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.
However, healing wasn't just about recognizing the abuse. It was about rediscovering me. I began asking questions I had never really considered before:
What do I enjoy?
What do I value?
What dreams has God placed in my heart?
Which parts of me had been buried beneath years of survival, accommodation, and self-sacrifice?
Rise & Reclaim Coaching was born from my own journey.
I created this space for the woman who senses that something is wrong but cannot yet explain why.
The woman who is exhausted from surviving.
The woman who has spent so much time focusing on everyone else's needs that she no longer recognizes herself.
Your identity was established long before the pain, long before the confusion, and long before the relationship. That's why I believe healing is about more than recovery. It's about restoration.
Today, I help women reconnect with themselves, rebuild trust in their own voice, and reclaim the identity that was never lost in God's eyes.
My healing journey is still unfolding, but one thing I know for certain is this:
There is life after abuse. There is healing after heartbreak. And there is a woman on the other side of this journey waiting to be reclaimed.
