What Does It Mean to Be Brave
Whenever people tell me I’m brave, I feel like a huge fraud. I don’t feel brave. At...
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Tag: grief & anger
Silence: A Love Story
In the end, there wasn’t any one or even multiple tipping points. Just a cavalcade of tiny...
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Why Picky Eaters Trigger Me: It’s Not the Corn
[Content Warning: physical abuse] I am in a shitty mood. Part of it is that my period is...
Read MoreThe Elephant in the Room
Today’s Guest Post is from my friend, SW Chica. When I read her first draft, she had included a line from her mother that seared straight into my soul. “I love you, but I don’t like you.” I didn’t...
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Learning to Be Human
(Trigger Warning: Physical and emotional abuse.) Here’s a video of me reading an excerpt of...
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It’s Not About Me
I have been hiding. I was on a good roll for a few weeks, posting almost daily, writing and typing...
Read MoreUntethered
The other day, I was flipping through my journal and ran across an old entry from almost seven years ago. (Hey, this journal has been neglected. What can I say?) Reading through it made me somewhat wistful, but nowhere near as...
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The Terrible Fear In Tenderness
“You know it’s okay to love your husband, right?” Dr. T asked me. “Yeah,...
Read MoreWhen The One You Love Is The One Who Hurts You
Today is my father’s birthday. (Well, I suppose technically it was yesterday.) Honestly, I thought it would hit me more – the grief, I mean. I’m not sure why since I’ve never felt particularly sad on his...
Read MoreDespicable Me
My thoughts are slippery, refusing to be pinned down. Every time I try to peer into myself head on, I catch my real feelings in my peripheral vision, already slinking back into the recesses of my secret, dark heart. When I still...
Read MoreGrieving The Living
The trouble with grief is that it sidelines you at the oddest moments. You think you’re having a normal Monday night decompressing after the children have gone to bed and you click on a friend’s latest blog post...
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