self-care – Eleanor Skelton

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”

The UnBoxing Project: Self-care during activism

Disability rights activist Cynthia Barram with her cat Dita in 2014. | Photo: James Sibert Content note: suicidal ideation, self-harm Cynthia Barram was the first friend I met in college who helped me start my own moving out process before helping our other friends leave Christian fundamentalist, Quiverfull households. Here’s her perspective on what happened,ContinueContinue reading “The UnBoxing Project: Self-care during activism”