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Close Clarity

  • Posted December 6, 2021
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I entered adulthood wholly uneducated and unprepared for life. I was homeschooled until I was 19. When I tried attending a local university while living with my parents, I had no time to study. I also had no respect for academia. In my mind, my own ignorant Christian beliefs were…Continue Reading

Future Focus

  • Posted December 18, 2020
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From what I have read about trauma recovery, the process can take a lifetime. The damage done over decades cannot be overwritten in a few years. I’m looking to the future with cautious hope. While a new year may not be a magical reset, I am reflecting on my priorities.…Continue Reading

Therapeutic Creativity

  • Posted September 22, 2020September 22, 2020
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Today to procrastinate on writing my daily blog post, I’m updating my page about the themes I’ll be covering in my memoir. People online have been asking if I’m still writing it, and the short answer is I’m working on it very very slowly. The reason for this is that…Continue Reading

Public Gaslighting

  • Posted July 15, 2019July 15, 2019
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Abusers don’t like being held accountable for their actions. One of the best ways to keep an abuser from holding power is to expose their true nature.

Slow Progress

  • Posted May 21, 2019May 21, 2019
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When you report symptoms of depression and anxiety, the doctors give you a chart to fill out. Rating on a scale of frequency, it asks questions like how often you feel like you’d be better off dead, or take little interest in doing things. Though I caved to trying psychiatric…Continue Reading

Art Worth Making

  • Posted May 9, 2019May 9, 2019
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“Don’t use your memoir to air old grievances and to settle old scores; get rid of that anger somewhere else. The memoirs that we do remember from the 1990s are the ones that were written with love and forgiveness…although the childhoods they describe were painful, the writers are as hard…Continue Reading

Living with Existential Depression

  • Posted March 17, 2019March 17, 2019
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People have been asking how I’m doing, and I answer that it’s all the same as it was months ago. I’m still fighting the monster of depression, I’m still trying to find meds that work for me, I’m still struggling to find my way back to my art. There’s not…Continue Reading

Winter Freeze

  • Posted December 11, 2018
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“When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of the imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no…Continue Reading

The Devastation of Lost Faith

  • Posted November 30, 2018
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“I lay in a bed of resistance Chained to either side I really wish I could, reset, rewind Someone has clawed out my eyes I don’t know what they told you But this place is not what you think Living inside a hole, they put me underground Where they could…Continue Reading

Dear Anxiety

  • Posted October 19, 2018
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“Trapped in a cold white room I want to know, who’ll be there when you snuff the wick? I won’t reflect the same as you I want the proof you’ll promise to let ’em down quick. I never want to see clear at all There’s nothing that could be there…Continue Reading

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