Category: The Real Me
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Daily Prompt 7/23/24
I have not kept the tradition of abuse and the silencing/dismissal of children as inhuman and incapable of reasonable thought. Looking back, I can see that this is the thread of my upbringing that I have needed to pull for years. This is something that has never disappeared and they both continue to treat me…
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Daily Prompt 7/22/24
For me, yes. But only in that every day for me is untypical. No two days are ever the same so it’s always a bizarre variety or experiences and things that make little to no sense, but in the best way possible. I like my day like that, although I do try to have some…
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Healing
The blockage is still there inside me. I am not sure why or what it relates to, but I am starting to feel that there is a trauma that is unacknowledged, unspoken, and definitely in my way. It’s taking away everything I enjoy like writing, and even the optional lacrosse practices that I committed to…
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Daily Prompt 6/27/24
This is one of the more funny prompts I’ve seen. What I consider myself an authority on may not be ANYTHING that other people would consider me an authority on. I bet there are also a lot of people who are not self-aware enough to realize that they are not experts on anything who think…
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Too Deep
I’ve been feeling really good lately. It’s taken me so much time to unravel everything that happened in my early years and how utterly awful my parents were to me as a child. It feels like it’s all finally come together and I feel better than I ever have. I think about parts of what…
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Daily Prompt 6/24/24
Spirituality is important to me, but not in a way that everyone can relate to. I believe in a higher power, the universe, that guides us in a way that doesn’t always make sense. I believe that the Earth has a vibration to it that is part of the bigger universe and when you get…
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Solving the Puzzle
After that great college reunion where I found those lost pieces of who I used to be and still want to be, I spent some time being happy and feeling relieved because I found myself again. And then I told my therapist all about it. And because she’s great at her job and one of…
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Daily Prompt 6/10/24
Best question ever… I AM retired after a 20 year military career with 9 deployments. I am available to coach the kids’ teams, take care of things around the house, move at my own pace, and not have to ask anyone for time off if I’m sick, want a vcation, or need to help my…
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Building it back
Something that I always deal with is recovering after having a depressive episode, an ADHD blockage, or any time I’ve avoided something or someone for awhile is that I have to get things back to what they were before. Sometimes I’ve let something go so long that it’s overwhelming to even attempt to recover it.…
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Pieces of me
Going to my last ever (as we know it) college reunion this past weekend was one of the most defining moments of my adult life. It felt important to go because I knew so many people that were also going, but I also wanted to take the time to savor the moments I had there.…