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The Internet: Our Vast Playground
(With Endless Possibilities) I’d be a liar if I told you I understood the internet. In all honesty, I can’t even begin to comprehend how the internet works. Yet, as a consumer, I can appreciate it and feel intimidated by it all at once. This feeling of ambivalence has always…
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Bonds. What are they? What pushes us towards bonding? What’s the point?
Even though this is my blog and I can write whatever I want whenever I want- I get stage fright! I get nervous! And I often think to myself before writing: “What’s the next trick I’m going to pull out of my sleeve? I have no clue!” But eventually-EVENTUALLY, my desire to…
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Hope Without Expectations
Suggestions from a wanna be nonconformist As odd as I am… As strange as I’ve shown up in spaces… And as abnormal as I’ve been – the society I’m surrounded by has still been able to instill in me the desire to be like everyone else around me. I understand…
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A Letter To My Friends and/or Family…
Damn. You found me. Sorry! I didn’t mean to sound so disappointed! But I sincerely am because if you were to read what I’ve written so far (I mean ALL OF IT) and you compare that to our interactions- you might think “Oh, she’s a big fat liar”. But: No,…
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Being A Low-Energy Person In A Fast-Paced World
(Get Me Out Of Here) As I’m trying to mend the broken pieces of myself together, I still have a hunger, better yet a yearning, for the energy that other people possess. I can’t tell if I was built this way (as in, if I just by default have low-energy)…
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I’m Workin’ My Way Back To You, Babe…
With A Burnin’ Love Inside For as long as I can remember, I have felt inadequate. And unfortunately, for most of my life, I let the attention (or inattention) and praise (and complaints) of strangers outweigh my own beliefs and so- I have struggled with loving myself as I am…
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Having A Mental Illness Is Like Having A Full-Time Job
I may not be working or studying right now and I was going to be extremely harsh and mean to myself today about it… but then I remembered something someone once told me years ago while I was crying to her on the phone… She said, “Nancy, having a mental…
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My Relationship with Emotions
It’s been a hot mess, y’all! Today I saw my DBT therapist and I explained that I’ve been tracking my mood in the tracker she gave me. I showed her the sheet and we both recognized that I’ve been feeling manic-y. So instead of teaching me about Distress Tolerance like…
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Two Cool & Simple ways to stay Retro
Because I don’t gatekeep, sis! “What a time to be alive!” I think to myself almost every single day. Technology has been making it’s ways into our lives more and more each day and as that is happening, so are the advances in equipment. Today I’m going to write about…
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I COULDN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!
So I said what everyone was thinking… I did something very impulsive and inconsiderate… but to be frank, not as inconsiderate as what someone else was doing. I won’t explain who this person was so let’s just call him “Ben”. So, some brief background on the problem was that “Ben”…
Foolishly Happy 