therapy – Page 2 – Eleanor Skelton

Grief is complicated

Originally posted on April 4, 2018. So I went on a journey this last weekend to find my grandparents’ graves. I was in Houston anyway after dropping a friend off at the airport and I don’t get much time off to go adventuring between work and school. I didn’t expect it to be so gut-wrenching.ContinueContinue reading “Grief is complicated”

#MeToo: It took me three years to unfriend him (For the Huffington Post)

Content note: sexual assault I told myself that he’d just made a mistake. I was 25. I’d never dated anyone. He was my study partner, helping me get through senior level classes. He knew I was planning to move out of state after I graduated college in a few months. “Neither one of us haveContinueContinue reading “#MeToo: It took me three years to unfriend him (For the Huffington Post)”

So I’m turning 28. | Donating my birthday to TWLOHA

Here’s a little secret most people don’t know about me. I can’t even count the number of times I almost died. This is not an exaggeration. People ask me, how could you want to just end everything? You have your whole life ahead of you, you’re good at writing, and you’re so happy all theContinueContinue reading “So I’m turning 28. | Donating my birthday to TWLOHA”

Coffee with ghosts: Learning how to stop listening to negative voices in my past

I asked myself why I stopped writing last year and the answers were revealing. Some days, there are just too many ghosts. It’s difficult to imagine typing out what you’re really thinking when the other half of your brain is imagining another person reading what you write and mocking you for being sentimental. Don’t listenContinueContinue reading “Coffee with ghosts: Learning how to stop listening to negative voices in my past”

Being really honest about my daily life with anxiety

Content note: self-harm I realized something the other day. My anxiety has always been really bad. It used to make me throw up when I was a kid. Or get really dizzy. I often couldn’t put it into words. But it’s only just now that I could start expressing it in a way that myContinueContinue reading “Being really honest about my daily life with anxiety”