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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness, and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. anne lamott
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I've probably posted this before. It's still perfect. This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have...
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"If it feels like shit, don't do it,"warned my yoga teacher. I was burning, shaking, sweating and basically dreading the next pose when she said that. If it feels like shit, don't do it. When I really...
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you keep worrying you're taking up too much space. i wish you'd let yourself be the milky way. andrea gibson
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I've been laboring over this post for several days now. I can't seem to find the proper words, the right flow, a satisfying ending. But I've decided I don't need a proper ending. That some things just...
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I always had to drink around him.Two (three?) vodka tonics at dinner. Wine at his apartment. If he didn't offer me a glass, I would prompt him. What do you have open? We went to an outdoor party at his...
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herself (myself)
Within a few minutes of sharing a recent post in which I showed an image of myself, I began to panic about the picture. (I did quite a bit of editing of the text itself the next morning, too, but...
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You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about...
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a set point
It's been a while since I wrote about my recovery from an eating disorder. And that's because it's generally been going well. It hardly feels notable.Is it worth mentioning that everyone defines...
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All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.miranda july
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a few things
This book. With excerpts like this: This song. On repeat. With a gorgeous music video to boot. The Mindy Project. Specifically any scene with Danny and Mindy on a plane. Or any scene with Morgan....
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I’ll start here. I live in a tiny studio with my fiancé. It’s in a mint-green house. We have our own entrance, and try as I might I cannot keep a plant alive on our little porch. A porch of our own....
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At first I panicked, thinking, I'm not going to be able to draw hers a full life. I was terrified I'd find out--that her story would come up so very short, or I'd make her sound like a little saint...
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The expectation to settle down and marry in my twenties isn't a 'thing' in my immediate family. My parents didn't marry until my mother was 30 and my father was 33. In the time they were dating my...
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no longer/not yet
reunion with two of my favoritesI've just committed to a year-long program in a very specific area of interest. I'm honored I was accepted, and I feel conflicted.I went to a liberal arts college where...
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You guys, for serious, it's very important that you learn how to own your shit. At some point in your life, you really have to get honest about the weirdest and most damaged and most broken parts of...
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This morning I was counting her freckles.She has five on the left side of her face, seven on the otherand I love her for every speck of trouble she is.She’s frickin’ awesome.Like popcorn at a drive-in...
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My bones said “write the poem.”andrea gibson, the nutritionist Writing is vulnerable. Writing is pouring my heart (and guts and bones) out. Writing on the internet is sharing something permanent. I...
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And I smiled at all the many ways she has shown me what I hope to be in this world. sarah hepola
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on the joys & frustrations of blogging
So here's the thing about blogging. It is indeed tricky and public and ripe with potential for embarrassment and varied interpretations. In college I discovered blogs that melted me, that spoke my...
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I edited and published my previous post on the day of one of my long-ago ex's birthdays.We dated so many years ago that I don't want to share it. (Eight.) Since then we've dated other people--as far as...
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do you still perform autopsies on conversations you had lives ago?donte collins
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Let us agree for now that we will not say the breaking makes us stronger or that it is better to have this pain than to have done without this love. Let us promise we will not tell...
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