Tag: healing

  • Unstuck in Time…

    November 2025 (I’m pretty sure) I don’t even know what day it is. Sometimes I have to really think to figure out the month, or the year, or my actual age. I recently turned 50 and had to keep reminding myself that I wasn’t turning 40, or 30, or 60. I just knew it was…

  • Circle Game

    I almost never do this; write a post that I intend to publish immediately without worrying and overthinking about how to frame my thoughts. Nothing but a cursory edit. My dreams are sad and dark lately. Sad for my younger self as I navigate parenting my now adult child.  I am sitting in a waiting room…

  • Healing Through WAP

    WAP = Word Association Poem Saturday, August 17, 2024 This is another exercise from the Rupi Kaur book Healing Through Words, which I am still so glad to be working through, however slowly. At first I scoffed at it a bit, as the word “healing” has become (well, to me, anyways) pedantic. Overused. Redundant. Insulting,…

  • On Quitting Self-Blame

    On Quitting Self-Blame February 24, 2024 The first time I went to therapy after my child was born, it was because my then husband Garrett told me that there was something wrong with me and I needed to fix myself. He said this while he was having his first affair (which he would not admit…