Themes
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Where AI Fits Into This Journey (And Where It Doesn’t)
There’s a lot of controversy around AI these days. I know a lot of people are using it to just generate content, whole pages, whole voices – whole stories. When I started using Pinterest, I had to tick a box declaring whether I’d used AI in the content. The honest part of me ticked it,… Continue reading
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THE WOMEN – A LOOKING GLASS INTO BETRAYAL
I usually do a Seasons post with a follow on as a thematic. This subject, I have written differently. It tells of my seasons and is intertwined with the thematic, as it is a subject that is so triggering and so painful – and I did not want anyone feeling triggered without the tools to… Continue reading
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You Were Not Placed Here To Be Small
However you believe you got here. Whether you believe a God who knew you before you were formed placed you deliberately and purposefully on this earth. Whether you believe in a universe that conspired across billions of years to produce exactly this specific version of you. Whether you believe in the science of it —… Continue reading
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Want vs Need — Loving because you Want to and not because you need to. The Difference Nobody Tells You About
I want you. But I do not need you. I said this to Carter more times than I can count over the years. And every single time I said it, he heard it as a withdrawal of love. As a warning. As me holding something back from him that he deserved to have. He was… Continue reading
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Thematic: There Is No Shame in Loving an Addict
Let me say that again, clearly: There is no shame in loving an addict. Not in staying. Not in leaving. Not in going back. Not in the years you gave. Not in the hope you kept alive long past the point where anyone else would have let it go. Not in the love itself —… Continue reading
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Thematic: The Boy Before the Man — Understanding Where It Started
I did not need years to see it. I saw it early — in the beginning, back when I was still just getting to know him, still navigating the dynamics within his family, still learning the shape of the world he came from. I did not have language for it yet. I did not call… Continue reading
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Thematic: The Signs That Were Always There — And Why We Could Not See Them
Hindsight is an extraordinary thing. Looking back across more than two decades I can see the signs so clearly that it is almost difficult to understand how I did not see them at the time. The pattern was there from the beginning — not fully formed, not presenting itself with the clarity it eventually would,… Continue reading