Tag: mental health
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Why Silence Isn’t Safety; It’s Self-Erasure
I thought shrinking myself would help me fit in; Instead, it kept me small, lonely, and unwell For a long time, silence felt safe. Each time I had spoken as a teenager about my truth and it had been met by peers and the medical world with misunderstanding, judgment, or dismissal, something in me learned…
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The Wilderness That’s Life With Chronic Illness
Finding your way in life when your daily life is a fight against hidden dangers My brain sees sabre-toothed tigers everywhere. Hidden behind the trees of the jungle, up in the foliage of the canopy and sneaking up from behind me. My brain believes I still live in the jungle. That I still hunt and…
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On Writing in the Face of Adversity
Writing as my tool to cope I didn’t write for a year. Okay, that’s a lie. I did try to write my weekly email to my community about writing when you have to deal with chronic illness on a daily basis. I’ve been writing it for years and I wanted to keep that up, but…
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Bouquet
When The Light and Colour Gets Back In If you live in the northern hemisphere too, I’m sure you are overly familiar by now with the colour grey. If January had a colour it would definitely be that. And I don’t know about you but I don’t do so well with grey weather. I love…