Love and Honesty: It Is Not My Love He Seeks.
And don’t I love too painfully? Scarred and burnt by my last experience? I will not allow my mind to exaggerate, to sugar-coat what it is not.
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Comfort as Defeat: A Wake-Up Call.
Going forward, may I choose the path of growth, the wild, tangled forest path, over comfort and the suffocation of blank mental pillows.
Conscious Darkness: How I Learned to Grieve.
Each time I remember the fervent wish to turn back time so the person I'd lost would still be with me, but I don't remember allowing myself to really grieve.
The Final Screams of the Codependent Rescuer.
I always thought I was a codependent rescuer because I was a person who was too nice without enough boundaries, willing to give myself up, to lose myself, helping another.
We Need Intimate Lives: To Be Loved and Resurrected Amongst Only Those Who Deserve Us.
I have resurrected myself to the learning of how to be alone. I have introduced myself to my aloneness and made it an intimate friend.
Fire-Walking: You Are More Than This Trauma.
If I can offer you the reminder of your wholeness in the face of trauma, I will plunge into the darkness again and again to remember my own.
Gratitude Is Magic.
I have learned that even though I am now in this adult body, it’s okay to continue looking at life as magic. Because it is.
Recognize Your Own Brilliant Light.
When my brilliance was no longer enough to keep her close, I kept in on even in her presence to remind her, my light was still there, still searching for a way to penetrate her shadowy walls.
I Am Free: A Circle Broken.
Wear your heart of coal on someone else’s sleeve. Leave mine free. F*ck you for ruining me. F*ck you for promising things you never intended to give.
5 Tools for Being Happily Alone in a Crowd.
Whenever a story is entering my mind, I simply don't entertain it and gently come back to the time and place where I actually am. Recognizing the freedom of being alone in a crowd is utter bliss.