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The other day, I woke up thinking it was a perfectly ordinary, everyday sort of Tuesday. Except it wasn’t. Even though it was. I asked myself: If the world is ending today, what do I want to do today, with my last day? Hands in dirt. It was a sunny, dry, mild kinda Tuesday. My…
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Those of us living with sensory sensitivities, anxiety, cPTSD and/or PTSD often find this time of year, this busy, bustling, unnervingly ‘happy’ time of year, to be especially tricky. The Holidays, with their seemingly blind obsession with being “Merry & Bright”, are supposed to be about joy and festivities. It’s like there are joy police…
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….cw: PTSD, suicidal thoughts, sexual assault/trauma… . Today is my dog Luna’s birthday. She’s turned 8. These days the fur on the bottom of her chin is now more white than black. I wonder how old she’ll get to grow into. Today is Tuesday, the garage truck is making it’s noisy way up the block…
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Yesterday, somewhere in my neighborhood, someone was playing/practicing marching band style drums.. It was kinda fabulous. Outside for all to hear, no hiding away in a bedroom with the windows shut. I wish more of us practiced in public. Perfectionism is sorta like a cancer of the soul: if left unchecked it grows, metastasizes overtaking…
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and i’m figuring it out and i’m zooming and zipping around and i’m just plain over the moon at my newfound freedom and so, so grateful to the generous humans who made this possible
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My First Week Post Op, Pain Meds, and That Darn Cat One week ago today I was under anesthesia, my uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries and cervix being evicted from my form. How has it already been a week?!? I’ve watched so many YouTube videos, like this one about Underconsumption Core, which I thought was just…
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…your flounderingDrowning life and your effort to save yourself,Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,Looking for something to give.”― Ted Hughes Sometimes you just have to breathe, and breathe again. Wait for the storm to roll over you, without letting it pull you under, drown you in the depths … because then *they win and I’ll…
