Tag: feelings
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My Lowest Point
**Trigger warning, this post discusses suicide ideation** I don’t normally open up to this extent about my struggles, but I’m feeling the need to be vulnerable and I’m rolling with it. When I think about my lowest point, I get really emotional. Because I feel a lot of shame about it.
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How to Let Go
Have you ever held onto something so tight, it’s as if it causes you more pain to keep it than it does to let it go?
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Redefining Your Rules
We have rules… sounds weird right? Why would we have a set of rules that we operate by?
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Let’s Talk Mental Health
For 29 years, I’ve been told by others that I’m too skinny. And when I’d gain weight, I was told I gained it and needed to lose it. Or I was told that I wouldn’t be able to fit into my clothes. After going home recently, the joke was that I was so small my…
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My Body is Not For Your Consumption
My body is not a conversation point. My body is not an opportunity for you to project your bullshit insecurities.
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Disconnect
In my most overwhelming moments, I believed the crap that others would tell me about myself and I would feel like I was floating out of my body. It felt like it was the only way to deal with things.
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Roll Call
I see my brothers as loving, gentle, nerdy, musical geniuses. To the world, they’re just black men, a potential threat. Our skin is seen as a threat. And yet we operate in the world with a welcoming smile.
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Intuition
I’m realizing that it’s very possible to put yourself in environments that are innately harder to be in just for the thrill. Anxiety can get a kick out of it. But at what cost?
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New Year’s Resolution
Is there anyone else that uses humor to cover up their struggles? Over the past six months, I’ve joked around about how I don’t get sleep and what I realize is that joke isn’t funny. Although it’s starting to get better, I spent the last six months getting 3-4 hours of sleep a night if…
