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I grew up with kids making jokes like “I’m not racist, I have a colored tv.” And “Black isn’t a colour, it’s a shade, so you’re not a colour, you’re a shade.” I’m tired. I thought when I left the church system, I was leaving white supremacy and all her ugly little cousins behind. But
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I wasn’t always the girl who couldn’t focus. I had a hard time in school, but that was because I was being bulled at school, and either neglected, and abused at home, or both. I struggled a lot as a child, mostly because someone threw me into a river of shit, and many of the
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Lots of people like to say this. It means “No matter what happens, you keep going.” Here’s the thing, though, sometimes we hit a wall. Sometimes that wall is abuse, trauma, drugs, sex, gambling, kids, jobs, or experiences that stop us from doing the things that we used to be able to do with ease.
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TRIGGER WARNING: CSA I wrote a post about who I became after the abuse I’ve experienced for those who do not know me and haven’t yet heard my story. This is a much different (easier to read) retelling.
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What coping mechanisms do you use? Smoking is slowly killing me, and as I did promise to take care of myself, I need to find other ways to deal with healing a life’s worth of trauma.
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When we talk about saving lives, half measures are not enough. I will never accept that we know better than those in need.
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I am genuinely asking, because I think I need to clarify a few things. For the last eight years, this blog has been about tracking my journey from rape victim to healing survivor. However, that being said, I realize that all my pro-Palestinian work has been on Medium, as that’s where I had the largest
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As you know, I’ve stopped writing on Medium to focus on making sure that the content I do provide is controlled by me. But also because I am tired of paying into a system that returns pennies on the dollar for a ton of free content, which I provide to them. Nah, I’m good. I’ll
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Dear “E.M.” ….We Believe You. “Rape Crimes” happen all over Canada, and go under or unaddressed every single day. I’m one of those victims that’s not credible, but I’m still fighting, don’t give up.
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Not everyone who needs the space to heal gets what they need. That’s just a fact, we are fond of saying “The system failed…” but the truth is that society is failing, as a whole. We are a failed experiment. We claim that we want to help the most marginalized among us, and yet we
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Thank you to @BlackSpectrumScholar for bringing this issue to my attention long after I followed LB Health. I appreciate the Neurodivergent community for sharing their stories and helping put Mental Health up front.
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Yeah, I said it, I remember distinctly when I was working at Surrey Urban Mission Society. In the early years, it was just me, Maggie, my mom, and our volunteer Margret, who was older than dirt was dry. The four of us helped house upwards of seventy people a night from November to March for
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