I wrote my first poem when I was 15 years old. I’d always wanted to write poetry. I feel things very deeply. I tried to write my first poem when I was 12, but I thought every poem had to rhyme. I was homeschooled in Christian fundamentalism, so I thought deviating from traditional poetry wasContinueContinue reading “Poem: Prayer”
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Recognizing and supporting isolated fundamentalist homeschool kids
I took a social media break last month. I still blogged and kept in touch with a few friends, but I stopped reading my Facebook and Twitter feeds all the time. That’s not what my social media breaks used to look like. My social media breaks used to be the way that I covered forContinueContinue reading “Recognizing and supporting isolated fundamentalist homeschool kids”
The Jar of Self-Confidence and stat bonuses
I’m naturally a bubbly person. One of the nicknames I earned in college was the toesocks fairy. But I’ve been recovering from what my friends and I called emotional hypothermia, slowly warming up to my own emotions, both positive and negative ones. I wondered how much of my optimism was forced. Not all of itContinueContinue reading “The Jar of Self-Confidence and stat bonuses”
Outside the Box: Recovering from obsessive guilt
“i am still learning that i am allowed to be human out hereinside it was not allowedthose things made a bad thing happenso i still feel that. any tiny mistake… ” ~ anonymous friend Obsessive guilt is no longer my religion. But for many years, it was, and the scars left by it still lingerContinueContinue reading “Outside the Box: Recovering from obsessive guilt”
Outside the Box: What is Joy?
Another anonymous post from a creative soul friend. Dear ****, I’m not writing this for you, cause I know you’ll never read it. I’m not writing this for you either, or you or you or you. I’m writing this for You, and I’m writing this for me. Did you know I was at a pointContinueContinue reading “Outside the Box: What is Joy?”
Eleanor Skelton 