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Aug 27
8 min

Getting Back Into Inner Healing Work (IFS Therapy)

A week ago I was finally able to get back into doing inner healing work. I was scared because it felt like it has been so long since I...

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Aug 5
2 min

Miniature Experiments

A Little Treehouse For the Playroom

My inner child has really been wanting a safe place to play and so I've been focusing on that the last several days as I had the energy....

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Jul 17
9 min

Getting Used to Horse Therapy Again

Yesterday was the third time that I spent time with Rose, my therapy horse. She is brown all over with a big round belly. Last week when...

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Jun 25
5 min

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 11
8 min

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 23
9 min

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 22
10 min

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 15
8 min

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 12
8 min

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 7
5 min

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 4
7 min

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 31
4 min

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 24
6 min

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 22
8 min

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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Dec 24, 2023
2 min

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, 2023
5 min

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, 2023
7 min

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, 2023
5 min

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 19, 2023
4 min