🌿 Stories of The Grove - Introduction

Where truth takes root, and no one walks alone.

In Essence Grove™, every story begins not with answers, but with a question: What if your pain could grow into something beautiful?

This space was never meant to spotlight tragedy or polish pain into something presentable. It was built to hold it gently: to say, “You’re not the only one.” The stories shared here are not for judgment. They are tethers. A way to speak of what we’re too often told to bury.

Each entry is a lantern in the dark. Not to glorify suffering, but to remind us that it exists—and that healing does, too. These are not just their stories. These are ours. Because grief, loss, shame, forgiveness, addiction, joy, awakening, and return... these are things we all might pass through.

I know, no one wants to be the first.
Good news: you don’t have to be.

I’ve already gone first. I put my story out there not for attention, but as a sign of faith. Faith that there are more stories worth telling, more voices waiting to be heard. I’m sharing a few that have been close to my heart, and some that I found simply through coincidence, or maybe something more.

If even one person reads a story here and feels a little less alone, then the Grove is growing in the right direction.

We are one.
We are growing.
And we are still here.