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I recently saw a video on TikTok and it said “A lot of you see the garden and we say lord I want that but he didn’t give us the garden he gave us the seeds and we put them into the ground and watered them diligently and we took care of them, weeded them,…
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Dear 14 year old me, you don’t know it yet but you survive. Not just the people that dimmed your light but the quiet tears at night. You saw yourself as weak but you wore your pain like it was nothing. It was as if it was invisible;I remember how you felt. Thank you for…
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We are taught to shrink ourselves to make others feel better. We are taught to shrink ourselves so others can stand taller. To whisper when we want to shout. But the tree does not apologize for its reach. We are taught to trim ourselves down, to soften our branches to make others feel comfortable but…
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There were drugs in my system. I remember laying in his bed—paralyzed by fear, confusion, and the weight of something I didn’t consent to. My eyes stayed fixed on the ceiling, detached from what was happening to my body. His hands were everywhere. While the memory plays on repeat, my mind is drowning. I couldn’t…
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She says she was hit. He says she’s lying. And without hesitation, we believe him. Time and again, society leans toward silencing woman not for peace, but for the protection of influential men. When women speak, they are met with questions, not comfort. Their stories are dissected. Their pain is debated. To speak is to…
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We carry things with us. Memories, defenses, scars that we don’t even remember having. They shape the way we act-just like rocks and fallen trees shape a river’s path. We say sorry when someone bumps into us. We shrink ourselves in conversations, in rooms, in relationships. We might think we are just being polite but…
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