#WritingThroughIt
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a thank you carved from the hurt you left behind
i want to thank you, though saying that feels strange in a mouth still full of hurt. gratitude shouldn’t live this close to heartbreak, but somehow it does. somehow it rises right alongside the ache, the confusion, the betrayal, the grief of being turned into someone i never was. when you came into my life,…
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the wars we wage in silence
invisible battles are the hardest to explain, because half the time we don’t have the language for them ourselves. they sit deep in the body, tucked under rib and memory, swelling in the quiet moments when no one is watching. it’s the kind of hurt that feels too small to justify and too big to…
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a beautiful mind in the shadow of survival
there is a moment in a beautiful mind when john nash, torn between brilliance and torment, chooses to live with his hallucinations instead of against them. he learns to walk alongside them, to make peace with the noise that will never fully quiet. it is not triumph in the neat sense—there is no magic cure,…

