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All In a Day’s Work
Progress is a rollercoaster that goes in every direction but the expected one until the word “expectations” has lost all its meaning and all I am left with is me doing my best. Continue reading
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Spinning
Lighting up the sky inside my skull for a mere few seconds of mind-stopping beauty before exploding into a million shards of nothing more than spectacularly colored light. Continue reading
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Is It Time to Stop Caring Yet?
It’s not over. Sometimes you just need to take a break. Continue reading
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Forgotten Stories, Remembered Versions
It’s really hard to rethink thoughts that were already perfect the first time around. Continue reading
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When Everything Is Okay
Just write. Write badly. Write everything and anything that comes to mind. Maybe somewhere inside that will come the beauty. We miss 100% of the chances we do not take. Continue reading
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That Ubud Feeling
It was on that late-night drive from Ngurah Rai International Airport back to my second-story room in a little Balinese bungalow in Ubud, as the taxi pulled onto my now familiar street, that I first had the absolutely beautiful and breath-catching feeling of coming home. Continue reading
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The Effects of Rats on Mental Health: A Very Scientific Article
For me, my rats have been a tremendous source of joy and purpose at times when I didn’t feel I had anything else. They made it onto every self-soothe list I’ve ever created in my years of DBT therapy. Pet a rat. Play with my rats. If not home, look at photos of my rats.… Continue reading
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It’s the Little Things
I like to know things. I like to know the plan. I get upset when the plan changes. Not because I am actually and logically upset, but because my brain just literally needs time to get used to a change in information. I expected one thing, and I’m getting another. It’s not bad, it’s different.… Continue reading
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Alive and Free
Mistakes don’t erase your progress, and progress doesn’t mean no mistakes. It’s the way that I’ve learned to step away from all or nothing thinking and to keep pushing towards my goals. Perfection, streaks, and counting days be damned. Continue reading
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Life Is for Living:
A Collection of Poems Written from the Psych Ward in March of 2021; Continue reading
I can I know 