Category: Stories
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the past year
Finishing therapy almost two years ago was a wonderful but terrifying feeling, I had no idea what I was going to do for the hour that I would no longer be sitting in my therapist’s sun filled room. Quite a few people have asked me why I haven’t written in a while and I really…
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the gifts of therapy
Everything we come to know in life isn’t everything we think it is…the gentle breeze that flows from one tree to another, the hand that touches another’s as they walk down a tree covered park, the memory of a kiss in a stadium of cheers as the world sneaks away… leaving only the two of…
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the impermanence of life
We are currently a part of a fragment in time of our own lives moving along a continuum with an ending that we all know we will have. I find that to be a strange concept on its own. That at some point, we are no longer going to be here, and all that will…
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the love inside of you
I’ve been toying with the thought of writing this story for a very long time, but I kept finding myself getting stuck at certain points or finding distractions that meant I wouldn’t have to keep writing it. I came to the realisation it was taking me so long to write this because I felt like…
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the importance of kindness
Cliche title, right? I think I see that line almost every second day in my instagram feed, either a post from one of the many “inspirational pages” I follow or from someone who’s sharing it in the hopes that someone reads it and does something with what they see. Sound familiar?Sometimes I really wish we…
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the many faces of abandonment
Welcome. I am so glad you are here. Before we get started I’m going to preface this story with a trigger warning.This story will cover the following topics: – Abandonment – Childhood trauma– Family Trauma– Suicide– Suicidal Thoughts– Obsessive thoughts– Pictures of dogs That last line was a joke, but your mental health is not.…
