Kayra Turck

There was a time when I thought faith had to fit into a very specific box. You believe this. You don’t question that. You follow these rules. You agree with all of it—or you’re doing it wrong. And for a while, I tried to make myself fit inside that box… even when parts of it didn’t sit right in my spirit. But over time, something shifted. Instead of forcing myself to accept everything I was taught, I started doing something different: I began running everything through my own filter. Not a...

No one really questions it when a woman says her sex drive is low. It’s almost expected. After kids. After years in a relationship. After life gets full. So you start telling yourself: “I’m just tired.” “I think my sex drive is gone.” “Maybe this is just who I am now.” And slowly… you accept it. But what if that’s not actually true? What if your sex drive didn’t disappear… What if you just became disconnected? Because let’s tell the truth—there are layers to this that no one really says out...

We often say that God doesn’t make mistakes. Yet we live in a world that constantly tells women that their natural features are problems to correct. Wrinkles are frozen with Botox. Grey hair is covered with dye. Curls are smoothed with chemicals. Bodies are reshaped to fit ever-changing standards. None of these choices make someone good or bad. But it’s worth asking a deeper question: At what point did we begin believing that the natural story of our bodies needed to be erased? Our wrinkles...