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The Bruiser
For someone with a crushing amount of insecurity and self-esteem challenges, I don’t present that way. This is in large part to a persona that has been a longstanding topic of conversation in my monthly check ins with my therapist. Recently I’ve decided to call her “the Bruiser”. The Bruiser appeared early in my life…
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Dear Darwin,
I’m writing this with some embarrassment, but total sincerity. We met at a strange point in my life. I had just escaped from my decade-long romantic relationship with an end-stage alcoholic. I had just started to unpack the toxicity of that relationship as well as the impacts of growing up with a closeted alcoholic, my…
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Daddy Issues and Cake
For as long as I can remember, my relationship with my father has been strained. This truth is challenged by a small collection of baby photos that suggest we didn’t start this way: young me handling tools next to him working on a car, me standing watching him cook in the kitchen, us playing on…
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Things That Being a Mom have Taught Me (Part 1)
With my return to work and my son’s first birthday on the horizon, I can’t help but reflect on what my first year as a mother has taught me. Some people say strange things to expectant or new parents. Before I was pregnant, I didn’t realize how profoundly strange the things people say to new…
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Collateral Damage
When I was about 8 years old my father lost his job. Unfortunately, it was part of a string of job losses which lead a once promising engineer-turned-business man onto the path to un-employability. My father, among other mental health challenges, is an alcoholic. Not in the conventional, obvious “rock bottom” sense, but in the…
One Mammal 