mental-health

  • The Counsel of Shadows

    You should never take advice from those who have never walked the ground you wish to claim. Their words, though wrapped in the guise of care, are often poisoned by envy or ignorance. From their perspective, your climb is too steep, your will too fragile, your vision too unworthy of belief. And if they do…

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  • They Did Not Know

    They never asked where you came from. They walked into your abyss blind, as if it were their right to wander through a cathedral of shadows they could never comprehend. They claim to know you—your face, your laugh, your surface—but to know you truly, would they not first need the story of how you got…

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  • The Season of Becoming

    Some mornings demand pink skies, veiled in drizzle just long enough to remind us that fall is on its way. The rain clears the air, washing away what clings to us, making space for what must come. It is not just weather—it is omen. Winter stands at the horizon, a dark sentinel, offering us the…

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  • There you are—standing in silence, the blank look on your face betraying the storm inside. You stare through me as if I cannot hear the words rattling in your skull. In your eyes, I have seen rage, pain, struggle, fleeting sparks of love, glimmers of compassion—but above all, confusion. You are the decision without thought,…

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  • Where the Shoes Return

    I told them I wanted you to feel what you had put me through.Not to punish. Not to see you break. Just so, for a single fractured hour, you could look out of my eyes and know the rooms I learned to live inside. There is a particular cruelty to being moved through someone else’s…

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  • There are things I want to say that will never land. I can feel them, sharp as the moon on a windowpane, waiting on the edge of my tongue. I want to warn you about the road you travel, to lay a lantern at its mouth and tell you it is a trap. But some…

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  • The Shadows Between

    Comfort is not always found in the warmth of the sun. Sometimes it waits in the dark spaces between this and that, in the hushed corridors of the in-between. These are places where shadows roam freely, where secrets linger behind half-shuttered eyes, and where the cobwebs in forgotten corners glisten like veils. The dark is…

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  • (**taken from my handheld listening device-one bright day in the middle of the night**) You want to talk about then and now. About what was done, what was spoken, what was hidden. You want to twist the story into something that makes you look like the wounded one, but revenge is not mine to seek.…

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  • The Guardian of Balance

    They speak about you as if they know your name. As if the syllables of your being roll easily off their tongue, carrying a weight they have never earned the right to hold. They act as if they know what you carry—that you are both light and dark, both good and evil, both healer and…

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  • The Fire in Your Bones

    The grass is most certainly greener where you stand. And if it isn’t, the answer isn’t to envy another field—it’s to water what’s already under your feet. Life doesn’t hand us flourishing ground; it grows in proportion to how much care we give it. Fear, that constant whisper, is nothing more than smoke in your…

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