Tag: mental-health
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Taleyew Mist (You Talk Too Much)
I’ll never heal because I feel everything. It’s all a mess, but I confess — this is my nest.
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Unmasking The Exile: Internal Family Systems & The Self
40+ years of surrendering in advance. 40+ years of self-deprecation as self-defense. 40+ years of believing what they tell me so that they’ll like me. 40+ years of wearing a mask that never let me fully breathe.
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The Great Disassociation™: A Personal Revolution
January 20, 2025 marks the start of The Great Disassociation™ – my way of coping with this dystopian state of america. I’m not going dark, but I’m redoubling efforts to be the change. Today is the day to be so radically free with loving-kindness that my mere existence is an act of rebellion.
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Joy & Kindness in the Void: Navigating Meaning in a Postmodern World
The author expresses feelings of disillusionment in a postmodern world and acknowledges the challenge of finding meaning amidst uncertainty. Despite skepticism towards political figures, they felt a spark of hope while watching Kamala Harris on SNL, sensing a genuine human connection. This signaled a yearning for empathy and progress in politics.
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I Get It Now
I get it now. I get it now. I used to have such a difficult time managing my time. Executive dysfunction you might call it. And I was hellbent against scheduling my free time. That’s free time. Not part of somebody’s schedule. But I whiled it away. Time drifted and strolled while I puttered and…
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Opportunity in Change
Sometimes a huge and terrifying change can be an opportunity. My knee-jerk response to a change is to bristle, panic (even that invisible internal panic that nobody sees, but flutters across my chest like a rabid butterfly), and bemoan my fate. But so many times an unwelcome change has shown up at my threshold; it…
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Unmasking the Twin
My name means Twin. Thomas comes from Didymus, which means Twin. I’m not sure what that means in the grand scheme of things. I’m my own twin? I hold the potentiality of a twin? In the Christian tradition, Thomas was an apostle. Some Gnostic readings refer to him as Jesus’s twin. Canon maligns him as…
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
Sunday, March 12, 2017. Of course it was a Sunday. Sundays have always been hard for me. (I was going to type “hard”… then I thought “‘difficult’ would be better” and I started to type “difficult” and then I went back to “hard” because sometimes you really don’t need more syllables to make the same…