I am crying as I stand over a pan of scrambled eggs. Trying not to let the tears fall in. Trying not to let my kid see me crying. I had taken the day off work because my other kid had a doctor’s appointment, and my ex is out of town. I was on myContinue reading “unloveable”
Tag Archives: mental illness
soft souls podcast: soft souls & counselling
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backpack full of love
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the seasonality of wellbeing
So…. I took a brief, unexplained hiatus from this blog, and I apologise for that. I wish I would say that I was using it to get healthy. I suppose in some ways I was— I am definitely healthier than I was before. But I am also not much further along in my writing andContinue reading “the seasonality of wellbeing”
healing pains
This week, I took my kids camping. By myself. For the first time ever on my own. When my marriage ended, I didn’t take any of the camping supplies because they were all at the back of the basement and because I didn’t have the energy to dig through it. And I didn’t want toContinue reading “healing pains”
dissociation and me
Query update: Still at a standstill, sorry. Life. Hopefully soon, I’ll get some energy to move on it. I’ve been thinking about dissociation a lot recently. I hadn’t really ever thought about it until a couple years ago. It hadn’t occurred to me that it could be something that I could have experienced. I’m notContinue reading “dissociation and me”
becoming real
Query update: Got my edits back from my editor, but haven’t looked at them yet, because life. No new updates, agent-wise. Sigh. I need to thank my BFF Lena for this idea. In a comment about my post about the shit show last week, Lena had mentioned the importance of “becoming real.” I told herContinue reading “becoming real”
managing, sort of
Query Week 5Queries sent: 20Rejections: 6Full/partial requests: 0 It is the 7000th month of Covid, and the new variants are creating a third fricken’ wave of this horribleness. It snowed yesterday (in April…), my uterus is being wrung out like wet laundry, and I have a headache. I am not having an awesome time rightContinue reading “managing, sort of”