It all started with a cough. Then it evolved into a story about a runaway. And then betrayal and death. And then silence. Always silence. But first, the cough. I had never seen a horse cough before. She would lean forward, stretch her head down towards the ground, and her entire body would convulse to …
Month: October 2021
Confession time: when I started both my weight loss and personal healing journeys, I did so with a severely flawed premise, that this process would somehow transform me into who I might have been. I spent so much time thinking about the impacts of trauma, my childhood, and the various impacts of my weight, so …
I’ve started reading Reconciliation: healing the inner child, by Thich Nhat Hanh. The five pages of the introduction have already had me openly weeping several times, and my favourite purple ink underlines nearly half the words. Beautiful and painful and horrible and wonderful. And through it all, I fight with myself that I am worth …