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Everything you’re about to read is based on my own experience. It may be a personal take on something, a way to cope, or a helpful anecdote. Read on and let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to write about.

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Grey November, I’ve been down since July…
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Grey November, I’ve been down since July…

Over the last 2 years, I have worked extremely hard on my healing journey. Sure I tackled a lot of the big traumas while writing the book, but it was the little ones that have had a larger impact. The ones that seemed insignificant in the moment or, maybe were significant, but became deeply buried through the years that I had nearly forgotten about them. When I wrote this post back in July I didn’t think that 4 months later I would still be affected by the episode that occurred - but here we are.

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Visual meditation
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Visual meditation

Tonight I was meditating with a specific purpose in mind - letting go. As I sat down and began breathing, a visualization started playing out and I found myself narrating it. Instead of continuing, I decided to stop and write it out instead. Here goes nothing…

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What lies beneath
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What lies beneath

Recently I wrote about my healing journey and the steps I’ve taken to overcome all of my trauma. While I know there are certain things that will never leave me, the more I process, the easier it gets. But what happens to those things that stay buried? And I’m not even talking about the vault memories that I have no access to. I mean those deep-rooted traumas that wouldn’t come up in a normal every day situation. When those get triggered, it’s a whole different ballgame.

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Bloom where you’re planted
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Bloom where you’re planted

Recently, my boss tasked me with something that, I’ll be honest, threw me for a loop when she first said it. You see, every week we have a check-in where we talk about work, sure, but also just check in on life. Because I have so many medical things going on at the moment, most of our check-ins are about that. The last few weeks at work, however, have been pretty hectic so when we sat down this past week and she said, “How are you feeling?” my response was, “Physically or mentally?”

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Healing journey
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Healing journey

“Healing is not linear…”

I’ve repeated this to myself so often over the last 5 years that it’s starting to lose it’s meaning a little bit. While I’ve always known that healing is, in fact, not linear, I never truly let myself live in that headspace. I would tell myself that every bad day was a setback and fall into an immediate downward spiral. Never good!

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1 Year Later
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1 Year Later

I have so many posts that I’ve started and either haven’t had the motivation to finish, couldn’t find the right words, or simply forgot about. This one, however, needs to be written.

**trigger warning: self-harm and suicidal thoughts

1 year.

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