After reading and rereading Anne Lamott’s most recent treasure: Dusk, Night, Dawn, I feel almost close to being able to fully and deeply breathe. Engaging…
Author: Magda Gee
I am in a program of recovery for those whose lives have been affected by someone else's drinking, drug use, mental illness. I am new to the experiences of faith and hope and courage, qualities absent for me in proximity to my family. No Contact has been the way to keep safe from diminishing words and actions directed at me. I think I have listened for the last time to how I deserve mistreatment. By holding out for something more wholesome and loving, I have been both banished and demanded to return. I prefer serenity to proximity. I will continue with my program and faith in the best possible outcome, so long as I do my part-- to stalk GOD as if my life depends on it.
I am still obssessed with the toxic and commonly held sentiments (not specifically aimed at me, just in general) and messaging of: You are the…
In Nothing Like I imagined, Mindy Kaling shares her delicious confession about an attempt to be a Big Shot. While out with her celeb buddy…
Even with 10+ years of recovery and spiritual retrieval work (though lately, the doing of the work is minimal and I find myself right back in…
I will not be a person who instructs another to smile. What even is that? To me, that feels unwholesome— unsafe. I prefer an authentically…
In a speech I heard today, it was said that “Patriotism is not loyalty to the president but to the country (in our case, the…
In true Magda- fashion, tired and hungry for my bed, silence, solitude, stillness, and my wieghted blanket, I departed our celebration before midnight–AND nobody got…
Sometimes, what it looks like is all anyone (not looking too closely) will see. Oh look, the wise benevolent docotor is helping so many girls.…
So Friday evening, after a long week with the boys, so much engagement and so many words, I was spent— and pleased to be draped…
Tell the Truth!! As a young and developing human, I had consistently recieved messaging that my body was wrong, too brown, too tall, too skinny,…