Trigger Warning: sexual abuse She came along much like Mariah Carey predicted, 23 years and 7 months into my song. I had written one big cathartic post about my years of sexual abuse for the first time in February. That Tuesday, the day it was published, the hero within me stretched, yawned, and ...
How to Return to Work after an Anxiety Attack
They all saw it. Well, three of them did. But, the ones who weren't physically present to witness your unravelling were there in their mind's eye. As one coworker relayed the story, they each saw their own version of you crying, trembling, panicking, melting into the antagonist of the character ...
Never Give Your All
"Love your body and it will love you back," I said at Yetti's Certified 10: Back 2 Basics event. I uttered those words on a whim, but with utmost confidence, because I knew them to be true. I talk a good game. I'd been on go-mode since April. I counted one weekend during which I could rest, and ...
Something Like a PheMomenon
Phenomenon (n.) an occurence that can be observed and studied and that typically is unusual or difficult to understand or explain fully PheMomenon (n.) an occurrence involving my mother, whom can be observed and studied, and whom is typically unusual and difficult to understand or explain ...
Resolve to Love
Izzy. The day I met her, I deemed her presence in my life unnecessary and completely unacceptable. Up until her existence, my sister and I were the only girls on my mother's side of the family. "The Girls," they called us, because they were so very creative. But then, out of ...
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