The Unburied Collective

What happens when the person you were certain would always love you becomes the reason you start questioning whether you were ever loved at all? After being knocked down by something I wasn't prepared for, I disappeared for a couple of weeks. I stopped creating. I isolated. I slept. and somewhere in the middle of all that pain, one question- "Did I ever matter to her?"- turned into s...

One minute I love you. The next, I want to disappear from you. If you've ever experienced that emotional whiplash, or been on the receiving end of it, you know how confusing and painful it can be. In this episode of The Unburied Collective , I'm talking about splitting: one of the most misunderstood symptoms associated with Borderline Personality Disorder. I break down what splitting actua...

In this episode of The Unburied Collective, Navie explores the painful line between loyalty and self-abandonment. What happens when staying becomes a betrayal to yourself? Through personal stories, reflections on healing, and honest conversation about trauma, grief, and relationships, this episode examines why so many of us hold on to people who continue to hurt us. And what it takes to finally le...

People hear "Borderline Personality Disorder" and think they know what it means. mood swings. anger. too emotional. but that's not what it feels like from the inside. In this episode, I'm sharing what living with BPD actually feels like. The fear, the shame, the overthinking, the relationships, the healing, and the things I wish someone would've explained years ago. If you&#3...

What if healing isn't supposed to feel the way we thought it would? For the longest time, I believed that if I was still hurting, I must not be healing. I thought progress would look like waking up one day feeling "fixed." Instead, it looked like setting boundaries that broke my heart, grieving people who were still alive, celebrating quiet victories no one else could see, and learni...

For a long time, I thought I was healing when really I was just surviving. In this episode, I'm talking about survival mode. The way trauma teaches us to stay busy, stay alert, stay prepared, and keep moving, even when the danger has passed. I'll share what survival mode looked like in my own life, how it protected me when I needed it, and how it slowly started costing me my joy, connection, and p...

In this episode, I open up about my personal experience with adoption and the emotional scars that come with it. This isn’t the feel-good adoption story you’ve seen in the movies. this is the truth many adoptees live with but are told to stay silent about. I talk about what it was like to grow up knowing I was “chosen,” but never truly feeling wanted. I explore the grief, identity confusion, and a...

Unmasking the Self We Hid to Survive In this episode, I open up about the subtle, and sometimes invisible ways I learned to mask growing up. From adapting to survive unsafe spaces to shapeshifting into who I thought I needed to be, I share the versions of myself I wore like armor… and the moment I realized I didn’t know who I was underneath it all. It wasn’t until my grandma left ,my safe person,...

"She didn't die, but I lost her anyway" In the very first episode of The Unburied Collective, Navie shares the origin of her grief; the kind that doesn't come with funerals or closure. This is the beginning of a deeply personal journey through adoption trauma, emotional estrangement, and what it means to mourn someone who's still alive. This episode sets the tone for the collective: honest, tender...