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It was the 32nd anniversary of my mother’s death recently. I have lived as long without her as I had with her. Of course her death shifted the trajectory of my life. Losing a parent, regardless of the state of the relationship does something to the internal life of a survivor. But the course of…
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There are so many milestones that marked my journey to become the someone I liked. Sounds like a sob story, to go through so many years of life not like ones self, and it may have been, until one day it wasn’t. We all have trials and tribulations that will get us to where we…
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My parents were not raised in traditional American households. My father was second generation from an eastern European country. His first language was the language of his parents. My mother was an immigrant from an Asian nation. She came to America very much couched in the ways of her people. Us, their children, were raised…
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I read somewhere that emotional trauma settles in the pelvis. In February of 2024, I was involved in a workplace accident that resulted in multiple pelvis fractures. The event that caused the accident was a collapse of a metal pole that attached a gate to a solid fence. A small section of pipe that no…
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When I was a child, I suffered from migraines and chronic headaches. I can still remember my first migraine. I was about 7 and we had had hamburgers for dinner. McDonalds, back when all they had to offered were hamburgers, cheeseburgers and fries. Then, the same as now, I preferred hamburgers to cheeseburgers. I had…
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In August of 2024, I was emotionally adrift. 2023 was a year of loss. Death had taken four souls from my life that were primary cornerstones to my emotional make up. Four beings who were some of the builders of my everyday existence. In the nine months between March and November, my world shook with…
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I had a soulmate. She passed away nearly a year ago. But because our connection was through our souls, I still have her. And, in many ways like I was never allowed to have her before. I was truly despondent over her death. My heart was set adrift in a way I had never experienced.…
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So I have this job. Its not a bad job. I like the work and it pays me slightly more than enough to pay my bills. Though the people I work with aren’t “my” people, we all recognize we are all working toward the same goal. And for the most part we stay on task.…
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In March of 2019, I got a new job. I was desperately unhappy in the job I had at the time, so I just started looking for a new one in February. As with any job that is really worth having, the process from submitting the application to receiving an offer letter was a long…
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