• Healing the Layers

    by Nina Ajdin Over the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing pieces of something that has been slowly taking shape inside me for years. At first, I thought I was simply writing about chronic illness. About topical steroid withdrawal. About grief, trauma, sensitivity, survival. But underneath all of those experiences was a deeper pattern, a…

  • What Is Healing?

    My definition of healing has continuously shifted throughout my healing journey with Topical Steroid Withdrawal. When I first started TSW over a decade ago, my definition of healing was having clear and essentially perfect skin. I never expected my journey would take as long as it has, and that I would still be dealing with…

  • Faith

    When there’s so much uncertainty in our lives everywhere we look, all we can do is look within and trust. Dare I say have faith? Faith is something that I wasn’t exactly raised with – I thought one must be religious to have faith.   I never thought about the universe and how vast the world…