J.Jae

Joined March 2025

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I share self-reflections to make sense of hard-learned life lessons.

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Serendipity Saved My Life
On August 5, 2018, I watched the documentary The Bleeding Edge. At no time before that had I ever suspected, nor was it ever suggested by any of the numerous doctors and specialists I had seen over the years, that my breast implants could cause my many illnesses of unknown origin.
By J.Jae9 months ago in Motivation
Monster Mayhem. Content Warning.
I have monsters. I have eery one-eyed, black-faced, sometimes yellow-eyed monsters lurking in my closet. Seldom do my monsters co-mingle, nor are they allowed to roam outside their confines, but there are times when an escape is imminent, leaving me on the brink of monster mayhem.
By J.Jae10 months ago in Families
No Pretty Words
I wish my mother loved me. I wish I had pretty words and beautiful prose to translate my mommy baggage, but I don't. Her absence still haunts me.
By J.Jae10 months ago in Psyche
Coffee With A Side of Emotional Healing
For most of my young life into adulthood, I struggled to reconcile feeling abandoned by my mother because I desperately wanted to know why she left me.
By J.Jae10 months ago in Psyche