Blessing for the Undernurtured Child Within
Dear Sister ______, I give you a blessing for the undernurtured child inside. For too long you have clung to the lie that perfectionism would protect you. You let it tear at your self...
Dear Sister ______, I give you a blessing for the undernurtured child inside. For too long you have clung to the lie that perfectionism would protect you. You let it tear at your self...
This has been such a strange time. Every person has been affected in various ways. I still wake up feeling like I am in some sort of apocalyptic movie, but I am surprised at...
Body / Gender / Intersectionality / Relationships / women
by Melissa-Malcolm King · Published June 6, 2020
I am on a capsizing ship but there is no lifeboat, I sink . I clamor to swim and those in the lifeboats tell me that if I just swim hard enough I could...
book review / feminism / Relationships
by Allemande Left · Published May 10, 2020 · Last modified May 7, 2020
My COVID captivity looks like this: work from home M-F, empty nest, husband retired, quiet house in suburbia, USA. I have time on my hands. I vacillate between apathy and productivity. During the past...
The collective grief of my country has surged for the second time in my adult life. The first time, I was a young adult, in college on September 11, 2001 when terrorists commandeered planes...
April 2020 – written 2.5 weeks into quarantine By LMA On March 9th, I traveled to Russia to visit one of my closest friends. At the very last minute (the day before I left),...
This post is part of The Exponent’s #EqualAccess Series. Disabled voices rarely get a chance to speak for themselves, but this blog series seeks to eliminate the stigma that disabled people are less than,...
On Monday this week, I began ketamine treatments for treatment-resistant depression. I had heard I would get relief much more quickly than with traditional SSRI’s, so I was hopeful. I wrote this yesterday, feeling...
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