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Chelsea Wiersma
Feb 241 min read
I met my younger self for coffee
I met my younger self for coffee. We were both late. Her nails were perfectly manicured, makeup flawlessly applied, and hair meticulously...
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Chelsea Wiersma
Oct 3, 20242 min read
My first taste of depresion...
Life in Haiti after that began to feel a bit redundant and mundane. Every morning, I would walk to work, sit through the morning prayer...
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Chelsea Wiersma
Sep 18, 20242 min read
“In the morning we get coffee”...
While living in Haiti often felt like a dream, it was equally filled with intense challenges. The heat, for one, was relentless. I didn’t...
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Chelsea Wiersma
Sep 11, 20245 min read
The time I lived in a rural village in the mountains of Haiti...
*** I have changed the names in this story for privacy purposes*** In my second year of college, I found an organization in Haiti that...
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Chelsea Wiersma
Aug 27, 20244 min read
My first healing experience in Tulum...
“Why don’t you go back to Tulum,” said my ex-husband one morning when I was lying on the bathroom floor yet again, desperately crying,...
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Chelsea Wiersma
Aug 19, 20243 min read
Heartbreak- Part 2: Climbing out of my depression pit
So I did eventually get off of the bathroom floor, and I largely have my friends to thank for that. They pulled me out of the depression...
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Chelsea Wiersma
Aug 7, 20243 min read
Heartbreak.
I’ve laid on this bathroom floor many times before. I know this spot all too well. I don’t know why I keep coming back here. 4 years ago...
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Chelsea Wiersma
May 22, 20242 min read
trusting yourself... a message from my therapist
I've been hurt by a lot of people in my life that I really trusted and cared about.. as I'm sure we all have. My parents, friends,...
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Chelsea Wiersma
May 15, 20244 min read
learning to love my body
In college, I started hating my body. I had a group of like 10 girlfriends and we all had different eating disorders. I laugh about it...
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Chelsea Wiersma
May 8, 20244 min read
my first anxiety attack
I remember my first anxiety attack very clearly. I remember how it felt in my body, I remember the images I saw and it plays like a movie...
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Chelsea Wiersma
May 1, 20242 min read
loving my darkness
After years of feeling like I was living in a dark bottomless pit, when I finally came out of it and felt the light again, I also felt...
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Chelsea Wiersma
Apr 24, 20243 min read
on letting my body make decisions for me...
Over the past year in my healing journey, I've been on a journey of learning to listen to my body. Breathwork has been a huge part of...
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Chelsea Wiersma
Apr 18, 20243 min read
One year post divorce- how I breathe and dance through the pain
Hi Radiate fam! Chelsea, founder of Radiate Retreat here. I wanted to begin this blog with my first post being the story of Radiate...
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