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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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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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Living Like A Two Year Old
What if we all choose to live like a two-year-old? He runs full force at huge puddle. He doesn’t worry about what will come after. He isn’t concerned about wet socks and cold feet. He is anticipating joy, laughter, and experience. The thrill of the splash. The squeal of his laughter. The future is coming […]
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Love Bombing
Understanding the Narcissist Love, affection, kindness and gifts are all really normal aspects in a healthy relationship, which is why it’s so hard to distinguish when it’s actually the toxic love bombing of the narcissist instead. Love bombing is manipulative, it is a tactic of quickly snatching the affection and attention of another human being. […]
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I wish I had a Spare Key
Creative Writing Prompt “That’s her mum.” “Who’s mum?” “Nancy’s mum!” He grunts in reply, and I know I’ve lost him, he’s probably sick of hearing me talk about Nancy as awful as that sounds – poor woman. I nip my lower lip between my teeth as I wonder whether it would be insensitive of me […]
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Him
In response to The Daily Three Things challenge. Silence, Quieten, Sedate. Reality collapses in. Thoughts that are not my own start tumbling across the surface of my mind like debris lashing around in a tornado. I reach for him. He is the silence amongst the storm, he is the calm when the noise becomes unbearable. […]
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Gaslighting
Understanding the Narcissist I don’t know about you, but I hear this word a lot more these days. I’m in a lot of different parenting groups on social media and quite often you’ll see mums posting frustrated rants about their partner who is driving them crazy. Usually, it’s a justified rant, she blows off steam, […]
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Wanderer
“You dreamed that you left your body” Writing Prompt from http://www.writerswrite.co.za 5 June 2022 She walks with the stars at night, uncoiled from root and bone. The call of the moon just right, unbound and free, she is home. She leaves through walls to the sky, loose from her earthly desires. Freeing passion, rising high, […]
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Weaponised Incompetence
Understanding the Narcissist You know when you’re building an Ikea flat-pack and you reach the point where you just want to hang yourself because the instructions don’t make sense, the pieces don’t align and quite frankly you can’t picture subjecting yourself to this torture for a single moment longer? This is exactly what it feels […]
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The Last Trip
“What shall we do with the strawberry bucket?” I ask Amber, looking down at the grey dusty dirt that is shrinking away from the sides of the metal bucket. “Bring it! Bring it!” She sings from the front seat of the car. I never have had much luck with growing things, it’s a miracle I’ve […]
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