Jackie
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Jackie
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instagram.comTo be a sick person is to know that you are always, simply by being alive and being unwell, someone elseâs rude awakening.
Sophie Strand ⢠The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human
May you learn to use this illness
As a lantern to illuminate
The new qualities that will emerge in you.
As a lantern to illuminate
The new qualities that will emerge in you.
Jenifer Breshears Markley ⢠Poet in Profile: John OâDonohue
in my fatigue and pain I couldnât find the words to make myself legible to others. (And I still have not found them. This text is full of silences and vagueness and lacunae: when I write âbrain fog,â I imagine that your mind slides over the idea, unless you, too, have suffered from it.)
Meghan O'Rourke ⢠The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
To become chronically ill is not only to have a disease that you have to manage, but to have a new story about yourself, a story that many people refuse to hearâbecause it is deeply unsatisfying, full of fits and starts, anger, resentment, chasms of unruly need.
Meghan O'Rourke ⢠The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
sometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowledge is a slow, unmarketable process. and the lost feeling might just be the first sign that youâve finally stopped performing someone elseâs idea of a good life.
milk and cookies ⢠why feeling lost might mean youâre finally doing it right
âeverything I touch turns into me"
Devine Lu Linvega
