Tomorrow evening at 6:30 pm I will walk down a small isle to say my vows and marry the man I love. All manner of sentimental thoughts have been running through my head this week. This post will be a brief glimpse of some of those thoughts. This week I have cried at the littlest […]
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Warning this is a heavy post. I’m finally processing my history and feelings around why I left and how it has affected me throughout my daily life since. As many of you know 8 years ago I walked away from the religion that had been the very epicenter of my life. 18 years of growing
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I decided I’d just sit around and go through some old papers after I got bored with resting. Found some funny stuff, lots of angsty journals. But one thing I found I’m still processing how I feel about it. It was my CHS sophomore transcript. Now sophomore year was the year I was pressured into
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High school, a roller coaster of time in my time. I managed to make it into Columbus High School. For those unfamiliar it is a fairly prestigious public school in the area. A magnet only school. You have to test to get in and its not an easy school. Freshman year was actually great. I
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Most of my friends already know that my health has given me problems since birth. I was born a month early. My lungs were underdeveloped, I had a cleft pallet and the doctors thought I would have mental defects. I spent the first year of my life on oxygen. I had several surgeries to repair
In the previous post I outlined the beauty and happiness that was my early childhood and elementary school days. I cannot say what followed was anything like that. I went into 6th grade naive about how friendships worked and the cruelty kids could show. I came from a school where everyone wore the same thing,
Middle School: the years everything changed. Read More »
I am happy with the woman I have become. I am proud of myself. But I acknowledge that the road to this point has been long. Part of my healing process will be telling my story. I realize that this is only from my perspective so the story is going to be one sided. I
The Woman I Became Read More »