Tag: birthday

• Thinking About Nightmares

  

  Last night she was lost. We were by the coast, the air was stringy with salt and sand, and I was somehow hollow and overflowing both at once. Her father was there, in the dream. Her being lost was vaguely his fault, but he was trying to help I think, in his soul-sucking, selfish own […]

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  28th Jun 2022

  life writing, Poetry, Short Story, Uncategorized

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• Happy Birthday To Me

  

  My thinking has been completely reframed as the day progressed. I woke up already entrenched in my trauma responses, choking on anxiety and this enduring feeling of unworthiness. The pattern of abuse that I have previously been exposed to doesn’t exist anymore. This post tracks my thought processes, and my awakening as I stepped out […]

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  23rd Jun 2022

  life writing, Uncategorized

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