Every now and then, we must write unfiltered. To do so is usually an act of courage. Writing unfiltered in an incredibly filtered and harsh world can be an extremely difficult task. But it’s something we need to do. It allows others to see us for who we really are. And it allows for others […]
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Dear nightmares…… Tonight, you will not get me. I feel you, I see you creeping up from the shadows. You’ve been the forefront of my existence for too long now. Your content has been all to real…nothing short of a horror moving featuring my real life. Tonight, I won’t let the fear of you drink
Today was “good”. I always put that word in quotation marks because really, what defines a good day? What makes it “good” for me might be completely unacceptable to someone else. I usually find that to be the case, that my “good” days are sort of like…“holy shit, that’s a low standard”. But today was…it
I’m okay….but I’m not. I’m fighting…but all I want to do is quit. I want to die…but I can’t give up. I want you, but I don’t. Please go away. Why did you leave? Don’t you know that I fucking need you??? No one loves me. I’m a cancer. I’m a fuck up. I’ll never
Today is my first day back in therapy since before the holidays, 2 weeks ago. Now, 2 weeks may not feel like a long time to go between therapy sessions, especially when some people only go that often to begin with. But I usually go twice a week, and at least one of those days
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A new year, a new chapter. New goals, and hopes and dreams. We’re here in day 3 of this new year, and perhaps it isn’t going as well as you hoped it might. Perhaps that goal you set, that resolution you made, already seems too far off course. Maybe you made a promise to yourself
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Five.Four.Three.Two.One. The ball drops and fireworks. Resolutions are made.People scream and people kiss and is it possible to change?Is it really truly possible to leave the past behind? Welcome to Midnight. We assign hope to many things. Each year, so many of us assign hope to this evening, to midnight, to welcoming in the New
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I heard that you’ve beenSelf-medicating in the quiet of your room,Your sweet, suburban tomb.And if you need a friend,I’ll help you stitch up your wounds. I heard that you’ve beenHaving some trouble finding your place in the world.I know how much that hurts, But if you need a friendThen please just say the word You’ve
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Do you ever ask that? Why me, why is this happening, what did I do to deserve this…? All of those questions and more. I know I do. I ask “why”, and the many forms of “why”, all the time. Why do I deserve this, how is that fair, what did I do so wrong…all
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If hope is hard to find, keep looking. If you’re searching for a reason why…keep searching. “The stars are always there but we miss them in the dirt and clouds. We miss them in the storms. Tell them to remember hope. We have hope.” It can be so easy to forget, and I come back
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