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A couple of weeks ago I asked you to fill out a survey so I could better understand the reasons you stick around. While reading your answers I realized that I sometimes write as if you’ve known me forever. Many of you are confused about what I do, where I’m from, and feel like some [...]

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Laundry tales

When I first got The Agoraphobia, or rather once I’d been in it for a while and progress was so slow that I couldn’t see past the end of my street, I’d pretty much given up on some dreams I’d always thought I’d live one day, even though I wasn’t actively pursuing them. To illustrate my point, over [...]

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Pinterest self vs Actual self

Tell me if this sounds familiar? You’re at home, you’re waiting for your sweet potatoes to roast and so you jump on Pinterest, hit re-pin a few times and then quickly forget you were ever there. You even forget the reasoning behind some of your decisions. (or Pincisions?) Why on earth did I re-pin this maxi-skirt [...]

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Missing out vs moving on

He’s looking right at me and he’s smiling. Of course, he’s not actually looking at me. He’s smiling for the person behind the camera and I am home alone on a Saturday night. For a second, I wish I was there. Back in the same bar, sitting in a chair I’ve sat in hundreds of [...]

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30 Things I Learned In My 30th Year

1. When I’m weak, I’m not as weak as I think I am. 2. And when I’m strong, I’m not as strong as I think I am. 3. How to play poker. 4.  How to rock (and roll) a sock bun. 5.  Under the right circumstances, I will always react like a drama-queen. I’m mostly OK [...]

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High-school wishes

For the last two months, I couldn’t get it up to read. I blame it all on John Green. After I finished reading The Fault in our Stars I couldn’t read another book let alone write. It was as perfect as a book can be. Then a few days ago, I heard about a book [...]

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Be like you

I could list a dozen adjectives that would convince everyone and their therapist that I have a strong sense of self, but I won’t. This is not an existential crisis. I know who I am. I just don’t do a very good job of revealing that person outside or loving that person inside. A few weeks back, [...]

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Light

{+}  I had a choice to make today. I could have spent the day vividly unhappy crying in bed and using my duvet cover as tissue paper or…well, not do that.  As with most either/or choices, this was false. More often than not, we aren’t faced with only two mirror opposite decisions. There are hundreds of [...]

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