Author: Melissa Elise Hall (Missy)

Heyyy!! My name is Melissa. I'm affectionately called Missy. I'm a survivor who has learned to thrive! As one who has overcome depression, suicide, abuse and physical illness, I know that hope is real. Everything that I've been through has been for my good. My struggle helped me to more clearly see me and discover hope, happiness, and purpose.

After Abuse…

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Trauma changes people. Trauma changed me. Emotional abuse in my childhood sent me spiraling into a deep depression and I became suicidal. Later on, an abusive relationship in my adulthood shattered my heart and broke my spirit. I lost myself and I became disconnected from passion and purpose. My mind was fractured and I became […]

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Where You Going?

.Reading time 5 minutes.

I have marching orders. I love encouragement and motivation. I thrive on it. I crave it. Without it, I easily sink into the black whole of depression. It grabs me and puts me in a headlock making me feel powerless. I have to stay on top of the negative moments and unfavorable circumstances in my […]

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It’s All in Your Head

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Perspective is everything. It’s a tool that I have learned to master and it has changed my life. 1. How do you view the world? That’s exactly the place I had to begin. I had to understand and own my views — how I felt about life, people and the things I had experienced. There […]

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When Writing A Life Story

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I love to write and have been doing so since I was a little girl. I have written poetry, songs, attempts at short stories, and finally, my memoir, MsMissy Speaks. I never imagined that I would share intimate details of my life with people, especially strangers. It never crossed my mind that my surviving pain and devastation […]

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The Aging Challenge

.Reading time 3 minutes.

  Across social media (it started on Facebook) there has been a challenge. The #HowHardDidAgingHitYou challenge. It’s been fun to look at the differences in people between the last 10 or 12 years. I participated and had fun. Then, it hit me. WOW I had so much more than years between my pictures. (2007 vs […]

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