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Category Archive: Self

White Room

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If these walls could talk what would they say?

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Brandy Lewis January 16, 2019 Body, Brain, Issues, Real Life, Self, Struggles, Take Care

Confidence Comes in Strides of Progress, Too.

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I’ve never been a very confident person. Not as a child or a teenager. And now as a […]

Becky January 10, 2019 Beauty, Body, Brain, Positivity, Real Life, Self, Struggles, Take Care

2019: The Year of the Uncomfortable

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For me, it’s kind of like exercise. Yes, it will hurt. Possibly a little, but probably a lot. There are going to be times when I want to quit, when it doesn’t feel like it’s worth it. But at the end of the day, I’ll come out not only stronger but happier too.

yumnasamie January 3, 2019 Brain, Positivity, Real Life, Self, Take Care

Learning To Tell My Own Story

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I couldn’t believe how healing the entire process was: the writing itself, the discussions prior to publishing, and then the conversations it allowed me to have after it was published. It felt like scrubbing myself clean after years of feeling a mix of blame and shame and disgust and numbness.

Madelaine Walker December 20, 2018 Brain, Community, Feminism, Issues, Misogyny, Real Life, Self, Struggles, Take Care

Hi, My Name Is

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“I wouldn’t define myself as an alcoholic, despite the doctors scare tactics. But I believe that because my problem doesn’t fit into the definition of alcoholic, it’s almost as though I’ve given myself permission to stay immersed in this problem I have.”

Lady November 29, 2018 Body, Brain, Home, Real Life, Self, Struggles, Take Care

Therapy Shouldn’t Be A Threat, And It Isn’t A Quick Fix Either

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“I guess I come back to you in my mind when I do feel “crazy.” Crazy for being nostalgic over a bad friend, for me being a bad friend, and for our messed up friendship.”

Becky November 21, 2018 Brain, Community, Friendship, Positivity, Real Life, Self, Struggles, Take Care

Eight-Year-Old Me

Two girls walking down the street in Chicago in the summer with backpacks
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Change has been a constant fear of mine throughout my whole life. Whenever I detect even an ounce […]

Mia Dadian June 29, 2018 Positivity, Self, Struggles

The Lamp Crisis Of 2015

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“What are we going to do with all of the furniture?” I asked my boyfriend who had become […]

Lisa Hooper May 24, 2018 Love, Positivity, Self

The Garden

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As winter approached the layers began to slowly prepare themselves, Much like the opposite when the first flower […]

Sarah A Maguire April 11, 2018 Poetry, Positivity, Self

Wonder

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I wish I could peel my skin back Layer by layer Until I revealed a me that is […]

Alison March 14, 2018 Brain, Poetry, Self

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