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This Old House

The house I lived in was not made of wood or stone. It was built from expectation and inheritance, from silence arranged as order, from rituals passed down like furniture no one ever questioned.

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I AM: Decent Into Depression

A personal account of living with treatment-resistant bipolar I disorder, CPTSD, anxiety, and trauma. Explore the physical, emotional, and mental realities of depression, the challenges of survival during December, and the resilience required to endure when hope feels out of reach.

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Let It Unravel

The best is not behind you. The best is not in the hands you have already let go of, in the love that has already left, in the dreams that have already withered. The best is ahead, waiting for you to stop gripping the bones of something long dead.

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