I am lazy. I don’t want to put in the effort to enjoy things. I don’t enjoy things. I don’t want to put in the effort to think about things long enough to have feelings …
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Not worthy of “human garbage.”
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When divorcing parents turn their kids into hostages, battlefields, and trophies.
People don’t realize how destructive words can be when the intended pain is indirectly caused. Parents going through divorce do this a lot. My parents turned me into their own personal tennis court. Back and …
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Specks of gold perched on a blade.
I peered through the bridge gate. It was a golden rose. Funny. You never see golden roses randomly. But there it was. A golden rose with the most graceful petals. I crouched down and tenderly …
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How do you get out of the rat race?
It seems the closer I got to 30, the more everything started to feel like a “rat race.” The dating and marrying scene. Having babies. Jobs. Education. Everybody is ahead of you and the people …
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30 Going on 13.
I can’t get out of my own head when I want to write sometimes. The teacher’s pet in me feels this compulsive need to appeal to somebody else, to sound smarter than I am, to …
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Medications for mental illness are a preferable disadvantage to a lack thereof.
I saw this post at the top of my reader page from MyLoudWhispersofHope and although I was planning to write something else, the end of her post had some questions that I thought were thought-provoking …
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Other people build the case against you and you award the verdict.
It’s amazing what the right people speaking to you in the wrong way will do to shift how you not only view yourself but function. I’ve been in a job where people talk to me …
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The Law of Attraction: why do some people tend to attract creeps and bullies?
Sometimes I wonder if experiencing trauma for extended periods, usually at the hands of those responsible for your care from a young age, has this gradual and invisible branding process. If your jugular, the back …
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Having a child does not make you a parent or your child obligated to involve you in her life.
*This is a draft I wrote a while ago so the comments about the state of the family are likely dated. I’ll be honest, I have about as much interest in Meghan Markle as I …
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Suicidal thoughts, a faulty system, and societal shaming, oh my: why getting help is easier said than done.
I’m sort of proud of this post. It’s a little too close to home for me to be entirely proud but I’m settling for a little proud. I’ve re-posted it before but I’ve been caught up in my life and essentially just trying to hang on as the hot mess express barrels through it so I haven’t been writing. I want to get back to it and thought what better inspiration than a post I really enjoyed writing?
