Continued from Part 2 Content note: self-harm In a group session summer before last with my counselor and my parents, my mom mentioned the time my sister asked her why I was so logical and scientific when one of our dogs was being euthanized in his old age. “How could Eleanor be so cold?” she’dContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 3: The Angry Monster”
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Emotional Hypothermia, Part 2: Dare You To Feel
Continued from Part 1 “We’re talking about anger here, Fraser, a human emotion.Are you human? Because if you are, human beings feel things, okay?They feel anger, they feel love, they feel lust and fear, and sometimes,and I know you don’t want to hear this, sometimes they even cry.”- Ray, Due South (2.17), “Red, White, orContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 2: Dare You To Feel”
Emotional Hypothermia, Part 1: The heart is deceitful
I lie here lifelessIn this cocoonShedding my skin cause I’m ready toI wanna break outI found a way outI don’t believe that it’s gotta be this wayThe worst is the waitingIn this womb I’m suffocating Feel your presence filling up my lungs with oxygenI take you inI’ve diedRebirthing nowI wanna live for love wanna live forContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 1: The heart is deceitful”
Fear of Failure: Write a letter to your deepest, darkest fear
In November 2011, the online teen/college writers’ group that I was in, CleanPlace, posted a weekly prompt that asked us to write a formal complaint letter to your deepest, darkest fear. I found it again today and thought I’d leave it here on the blog. To: FailureRecurring Nightmare #9The Clammy Caverns of My SubconsciousContinueContinue reading “Fear of Failure: Write a letter to your deepest, darkest fear”
Eleanor Skelton 