Some People Won’t Believe You Until You Break. Break Anyway, If You Need To. You Don’t Owe Anyone

“You’re so calm during conflict.”

No babe, that’s dissociation. We all bring our talents to the table...

You're still here

Maybe you still talk about it like it wasn’t a big deal. Maybe you laugh when you tell the story. Maybe you change the details each time, depending on who’s listening. Maybe you say “it was weird” instead of “it was wrong.”

Sometimes, survival looks like contradiction. Like forgetting on purpose. Like trying on different words until one of them feels safe enough to hold.

You don’t owe anyone a neat version of what happened. It was messy. You’re still here. That’s the truth.

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Part of the problem is when you become overwhelmed and burnt out; making any decisions isn’t what helps. People forget that when you get to a place of burn out. The last thing your mind wants to do is make more decisions. It’s burn out, it just wants to rest and not have to constantly choose this or that.

influencers actively trying to convince young women to aspire to unemployment and servitude is literally so sinister

...that famous Einstein quote about repeating stuff = insanity

slowly spiraling

You don’t need to prove it

was

serious enough.

If it made you feel unsafe, disrespected, or humiliated

that’s serious...that’s enough.

“You’re overreacting.” Me, about to liberate the galaxy AND the breakroom.

“So much of coming to terms with hard things from the past seems to be about believing our own accounts, having our memories confirmed by those who were there and honoured by those who weren’t.” — Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger

and found me guilty of making things awkward