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Lamentations

Filed under: life, mental health, music, relationships

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Think of You

Note to Self: Trust your intuition. The desire to believe other people’s words over their behaviour is a consistency in my life. I want to trust what they say because […]

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So I Can Start To Begin Again

You know that annoying feeling where you’ve got a song lyric stuck in your head but you can’t for the life of you remember the song title, the artist, or […]

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Everything Changes

“Would you like to contribute to our Thankful Tree?” she asked kindly as I wandered past, while thrusting a small round card into my hands and directing me towards a […]

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I Can’t Even…

I am so tired. I can’t even. Anything. Sometimes, I sleep. Mostly, lately, I don’t. There is a red warning light flashing in my peripheral vision. I focus on what’s […]

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Homecoming

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end… “Closing Time” Semisonic The thing about time travel is that it’s much slower than people think. You can only go second by second, minute by...

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Write What You Don’t Know

Hey, look you guys! I wrote a thing and someone published it! Filed under: mental health, writing Tagged: anorexia, anorexia nervosa, anxiety, bipolar disorder, blogging, bulimia, bulimia nervosa,...

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Music Monday | Gasoline – Halsey

Once, I felt all of this. I remember it. Or, I think I do. I remember it in a way that feels like waking up from a dream. In pieces. Squinting into snippets and glimpses of half-made pictures. And I...

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On This Day

Facebook has reminded me that two years ago, this happened.  

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Music Monday | Castle – Slum Sociable

At the end of a year, people like to make resolutions, create goals or define ambitions for the next year. These can be helpful but they can also make life overwhelming, so they tend to fall by the...

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Today I Met A Lighthouse

The silver birches, white trunks gleaming against the blue grey sky, stand in a sea of daffodils. They are early this year, the daffodils. But everything is. Our winter has been unseasonably warm. The...

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White Male Rage and the Socialisation of Violence

Content note: sexual assault and sexual violence Today, Jessica Valenti wrote: A cruel irony of sexual assault and harassment is that the traumas which frequently determine the trajectory of women’s...

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Industrial Accident

A brown velvet nose presses into the crook of my elbow Paws rest against my aching arm Locked into position by his warm body I shift, try to roll, uncomfortably Today there is no comfort Seven years...

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Musicless

Many Mondays have passed without music. As have all the Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. There is little solace and much grief. I’m trapped inside a free-falling...

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Music Monday | Nothing Breaks Like A Heart – Mark Ronson ft. Miley Cyrus

This world can hurt you It cuts you deep and leaves a scar Things fall apart, but nothing breaks like a heart Songwriters: Clement Picard / Conor Syzmanski / Ilsey Juber / Mark Ronson / Maxime Picard /...

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Music Monday | hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but I...

Six days ago, Lana Del Rey released her newest song. I’ve been tearing around in my fucking night gown 2/47 Sylvia Plath It’s a sheer, luminous ballad with her perfect voice echoing in a wash over...

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Tribute

A tribute to Mary Oliver, and my lover.

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Music Monday | Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey

“And it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking about when we talk about love.” Curled on the couch of my airbnb eating olives, I strip the marinated flesh from the...

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Nostalgia

And in the distance As barren hills are touched by black-tipped fingers The fading light reminisces about the days it lingered Over pots of tea with toast Whispering sweet nothings to its only ghost....

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Music Monday | Outside the Lines – Birdtalker

After running a Spotify account for about two years, I’m finally starting to use it in a way that doesn’t involve just searching for my favourite songs and listening to them. Lately, I’ve been paying...

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