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Jun 255 min read

A Nightmare I Don't Know How To Wake Up From

If you have been following my story lately you may have heard that I was in the shelter for 7 months...it really took me for a loop...

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Jun 118 min read

Progress or Not?

TW: Child Sexual Abuse I haven't been writing much lately. I've been wanting to but the words inside my head are just all jumbled and my...

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Apr 239 min read

Sliding Into My DMs

On Sunday night I had an individual slip into my DMs implying that she's doing well but that I'm not because I'm not trying hard enough....

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Apr 2210 min read

Uncovering Some More Wounds...

Last night in therapy I went to a place I wasn't planning to go. A place that seemed so far away and yet so similar to my current...

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Apr 206 min read

My First Dollhouse(s)

Around a year ago in the healing work I was doing I came up with the idea that I wanted to build a dollhouse for the child inside of me...

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Apr 158 min read

Just A Little Bit More Healing...

Last night I was able to release just a little bit more grief and pain from how my abusive employers treated me...it is still such a...

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Apr 128 min read

It Is Not Okay

In February I felt that maybe I'd be out of the shelter by the end of the month. (But that was false)I planned that I would spend March...

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Apr 75 min read

When Did It Start?

Today I was thinking about that question. A few days ago I was asked when the exhaustion started. When I first felt it. I still remember...

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Apr 47 min read

What's The Next Step?

Warning: this is a really raw post. Read at your own risk... Right now I'm angry. Angry with the world. Angry with life. Angry with...

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Mar 314 min read

Into The Pit

It was just such a straight out-of-the-blue question that even if something was or had happened that I remembered, I don't think I'd have

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Mar 246 min read

Slowly Suffocating

See the little girl? She's very young. Maybe 2 or 3 years old. She feels so bewildered and alone. The people who should be nurturing her...

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Jan 228 min read

Nightmares Aren't Always Bad

And it reminds that 16 year old part of me of how it used to be at that age. Yes, my parents owned the property but I had no space to...

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Jan 16 min read

My Dream Bedroom

The other day I realized that I have figured out what my dream kitchen and living room would look like to some degree but I've never...

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Dec 24, 20232 min read

Rags At First Glance

Last week someone sent me these words when I needed to hear them because I have been feeling so pressured to "fit in a box" (which...

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Dec 18, 20235 min read

Big Feelings Over Something Normally Insignificant

Tonight I decided that I want to make tomato soup and a toasted cheese sandwich for supper. I left the room to go to my locker in the...

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Dec 7, 20237 min read

Lifting the Burden

This past weekend was horrible. I had things I wanted to do but I didn't get any of it done... Friday I went to work and took a picture...

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Dec 7, 20235 min read

More Salt

Edit: I had taken this down because I was unsure whether I really should post it but decided to repost it in its rawness... Today is...

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Nov 23, 20234 min read

Christmas Dreams

*AI generated photo Now I'm going to start dreaming for Christmas...what my dream Christmas would look like...the colors would be blue,...

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Nov 20, 20233 min read