healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Competition
In a world were the current population is 7.8 billion souls as of september 2020 on planet Earth, there exist 7.8 infinite realities. Each individual person is living a life and creating history, determined by the choices that they make each second/millisecond/microsecond/nanosecond/picosecond. It all starts with a thought. The individual has an infinite number of possibilities each time and each possibility creates a different experience.
By Denisse Ramirez5 years ago in Motivation
IHope for a Cure
I have suffered from headaches since I was 7 years old. They diagnosed me with migraines that year and started me on what would be a life-long journey of taking every known headache medicine known to man. In 2004 I was working in my dream job as a nurse & began having more severe and frequent headaches, that were unable to be relieved by any kind of medicine. After a spinal tap was performed it was discovered that I had a rare disease called Idiopathic intracranial Hypertension, it is a disease where your body doesn’t absorb your spinal fluid correctly thus causing increased pressure to the brain. Intracranial Hypertension (IH) is characterized by increased pressure inside the skull. Intracranial means inside the skull and hypertension means high fluid pressure. Intracranial hypertension means that the pressure of the fluid that surrounds the brain (cerebrospinal fluid or CSF) is too high. Elevated CSF pressure can cause two problems, severe headache and visual loss. If the elevated CSF pressure remains untreated, permanent visual loss or blindness may result. Pseudotumor cerebri and benign intracranial hypertension are both former names for IH, which are now considered inaccurate. These names do not adequately describe the disorder and downplay the seriousness of IH.
By Jeanette Hughes5 years ago in Motivation
just a “basic” tattoo
I know, I know... this looks like a “basic white girl” tattoo, right? Right. I was 21 when I got this tattoo and it was only the second mark of permanent ink my body had known. I’m not sure if every basic tattoo is fueled by someone believing that it has important meaning or not, but meaning is what what my basic tattoo was fueled by. Experience, pain, depression, & a new perspective gave my second tattoo breath.
By JP5 years ago in Motivation
Not the introduction I intended...
I am uncertain as to why I decided on this platform, or any for that matter, to share my story. This past year, since I first conjured the words, I have had this urge to share with those outside of my immediate family. After all these years, I have no idea why I feel this way as I have never sensed this until now… Maybe it’s due to my fear of losing the chance to share my story the way I want to, or maybe it’s because I have a sneaking suspicion that if I finally open myself up and share my vulnerability with the world then I will be liberated from the duty of sole carrier. I am taking this chance to finally lift the weight of twelve years of internalisation off of my shoulders.
By TL5 years ago in Motivation
The Day I Left The Cult
I have a small tattoo of a swallow on my back. A bird tattooed on the back often symbolizes freedom. One could say it’s a bit cliché but the story behind my bird tattoo is anything but cliché. You see; I was raised in a cult since the age of three.
By Chris Stratton5 years ago in Motivation
The Diamond Wolf
So. When I was fifteen, I noticed my mother came home with something new. Strange and new... On her ankle was a little colourful tattoo. If I had to describe what it looked like, well the easiest way is to say it was a slutty frog... Strange I know. But what will forever be inked on to her aging ankle will be a green frog with bright red lipstick, black stripper stockings and curly blonde hair... Like i said. A strange tattoo. But then again my mother is a strange woman.
By Craig Topping5 years ago in Motivation
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Kintsugi changed how I viewed all of my world, it changed how I thought about myself and the process I was currently enduring; it was hard to see outside the box because well, when you are told you are broken a million pieces, how can you possibly sit with patience and begin working at it? how can you take what's left and converted to what is next?
By Lucinet Luna - The Author 5 years ago in Motivation
Decluttering
I was wondering the other day, what`s up with my life that it`s always a mess. I know I`m not the cleanest person and my room gets messy sometimes, but comparing to my life, my room is a glass castle with shiny gold decor. Somehow I keep on messing up whatever I start to do, friendships, relationships, jobs, even a basic dinner... But is it because I`m a looser born to be an entertainment for everyone around or is there another reason for that?! Did I do anything that makes me deserve this?! Did I mess up something?! Is this all my fault?!
By Dory5 years ago in Motivation
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Entering the ring on the left is Heart, entering the ring on the right is Mind. Mom burned my brother's hand because he stole money out of her wallet, as his hand settled on top of the stove, he was smiling out of ego but a few seconds later he started screaming and mumbling words that my mom needed clarity on, so she didn't let up, until he said those words clearly: "I am sorry mom" she let his hand go, and imminently threw it on a bowl full of milk. At the time, I didn't see the bowl of milk waiting in the sink, it was out of sight, all I saw was anger and disappointment in her eyes, fear in his. He never stole a penny from no one again.
By Lucinet Luna - The Author 5 years ago in Motivation
You have the world in your hands.
People know that bad stuff happened to me, and it’s all par for the course my life went on. My feelings of safety and love were shattered when I was 7 years old. My family was already broken, and I was the kind of child that never wanted to add to the stress of situations, so I kept my secrets and pain to myself... and I carried them with me for 17 years. I was always running away from those feelings. Searching for an escape in any way that felt good and I also thought if I just kept moving; nothing could catch up to me. It’s why I first moved to Arizona, and it did heal me at first. Going off on my own and exploring all of the mountains, deserts, and canyons I could; brought me the peace and serenity I needed. It was only a matter of time before everything caught back up to me, and when it did; it hit hard. A few know the events that transpired that led me back to Austin, but very few witnessed how bad it was for awhile. I went to a deep, dark place that myself, and even everyone who loved me didn’t know if I was going to make it back out of. To top all of that off; I had met a man who preyed on my vulnerability and then brutalized me for months and months. The truth is I had hit rock bottom at so many points in my life, and I always came back up, but I can’t put into words what this particular kind of broken felt like. I was stripped of my wonder, courage, and hunger for life. I’ve spent the last 3 years both battling the lifetime of unhealthy coping mechanisms I had established for survival, and learning to heal from all that broke me. I went from never, ever asking anyone for help to being so terrified of the world; I felt I couldn’t do anything on my own. When you lose trust in yourself to make good choices and take care of yourself; what do you have left? Today I stood on the edge of Bryce Canyon, and I bawled my eyes out. I cried for baby Taelyr, I cried for my grams, I cried for Juan, and I cried for Summer. Today it finally sank in that life is too short, and this world is too beautiful.. to be scared all of the time.
By Taelyr Dotson5 years ago in Motivation
