Category: self-care
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How Are You Spending Your Emotional Currency?
Sometimes our encounters with others are mirrors of ourselves..Their greatest flaw that annoys us is also within …us..The lesson that they’re learning is, at its root, the same one we are learning…..or the same lesson that it would serve us to learn..Other times though, encounters with others are not mirrors..They’re more like business negotiations..Whether personal…
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It’s [YOUR NAME], B*tch.
I get why Britney shaved her head. Why ‘FUCK!’’ is chiseled into the bathroom Stall by a kid with dark eyeliner and emo bangs? This I now understand. Sometimes, Allie chooses Lon, and Noah Is left with his beard in the boat with the birds. Frequently, the Anakins succumb to the dark side or the…
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Unzipped
I’m far from focused when you are near. ..A distracting tease you are for tempting me at all the wrong times…⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀What? Now? Here? You and I?..⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Though I am drawn to you and there’s no denying that…⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀I would be a fool to deny this, to repress this. .I’m drawn to you at the deepest level, somewhere…
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Synthetic Self-worth
My empty nods and distracted eyes enunciate my inability to care for another. .Why care for another when I could just control them? Selfish, am I. .My neurotic control of everyone’s life utters the lack of control that I feel over my own. .My 24hour lipstick spews judgments whose scars will last much longer. .My…
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They and She: The Paralyzing Power of Past Family Pain
Sometimes, I am paralyzed by the past pain of my family. It’s as if what touched them touches me. It’s as if who they couldn’t forgive,I came out of the womb detesting. It’s as if their mind’s tears flowed through the years onlyTo solidify in my DNA. No words were needed when I was young;…
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Hello (Again), Wound.
I was at a dear friend’s house and my daughter and her friend were walking the beautiful land with us. (If you look closely, you can see them forging ahead of us into the sunset in the pic above.) They kept saying, “Let’s go find some new secret pathways! Yeah!” And then they would wave…