Hey people, it’s okay to feel fear (and all the other “bad” emotions)
We’ve learned to label emotions “good” and “bad” or “okay” and “not.” We’ve learned to push our feelings down and away, to plaster on a smiley face, to say “anyway” at the end of sentences (or paragraphs) where we’re being real but we think we’re being a downer. We’ve...
I’m not failing, even when I feel like s–t
I was on a zoom with another Second Gen (those of us born and/or raised in a cult or extremist group). He was telling us how he was struggling. How something had happened in his cult-activist network, and that it kicked up shit. That he was having a hard time getting...
Find the joy in this breath. In this moment.
As my chemo’d eases, my insomnia’d has crept a bit back in. F---g p---s me off. I want to only start feeling less achy, less tired, more like me, and instead I have days with the physical, mental, and emotional pain of insomnia’d. Where I feel so bad, I can’t tell if...
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I am counting on life being long
Either way I am committed to making it as sweet as possible
One choice, one expression of love, one savoring moment, one explosion of joy at a time
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But it is important to remember, because, honestly, most of it is trivial
What matters?
You
Me
Connection
Love
Working for change
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