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Your Wednesday Writing Prompt!
Following the lead of some of you happy bloggers, I’m going to launch a weekly series of writing prompts now that my following is beginning to grow. Each week I will post a title and it’s completely up to you how you progress from there. Let creativity be your guide! Write a poem, a short…
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Trying Not To Be Chair Shaped #4
Today, I decided to try some alternate exercise. I went on the trampoline with the children. Very nearly wet myself. I’m three children deep, you’d think I’d know a thing or two about incontinence by now, but my pelvic floor seemed to survive thus far. Perhaps it was turning thirty-one that did it. Either way,…
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Honest Healing
Sometimes it hits me out of nowhere, how truly alone I have felt in my life. I lean across the window sill in my bedroom to push the window wide before bed, thinking about nothing more sinister than the cool night air and it’s delicious contrast to the warm, soothing sheets while I sleep. My…
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Disassociation
You know that feeling when you arrive at a destination, you park the car, and then you realise you have absolutely no recollection of the drive there? Or when you leave the house, get ten yards down the road and have no idea if you shut and locked the door, so you turn back and…
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Trying Not To Get Chair Shaped #1
Dear followers, As you may, or may not know I have recently decided to give up my day job and focus all of my energy on my own business, a business that leapt up and tackled me out of nowhere I might add. It’s going very well, in case you were wondering. There is only…
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Trying Not To Get Chair Shaped #2
This week in “Trying Not To Be Chair Shaped”, I thought you might like to see the chair I’m trying not to be shaped like. It’s this. It’s this chair. Comfortable, sleek, the arms might be upside down. I love it, but I don’t want to be shaped like it. I endeavour to exercise more…
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The Last Shift
Today’s the day. I first entered employment at seventeen-years-old simply because my mother needed financial help. I continued to work hard at college and do well in my A-levels during the day, and then in the evenings and weekends I would go to work in a grocery store working on a checkout and bringing home…
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Isolation
Understanding the Narcissist He made me feel completely alone in this world. I am still unpacking the how and the why of that in my therapy sessions. None of it was overt, which is why it’s so difficult to unravel, I think. At no point was I ever expressly told not to have friends, not…
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