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Self-control ≠ healing: why I stopped diffusing other people's emotional time bombs
From a woman becoming herself. I am Nadia. 1985. Third culture human. Photographer. Writer. Cat mum. Theologian turned Atheist. I don't do the status quo and I question everything. Expect to be challenged. And the occasional poem.
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Self-control ≠ healing: why I stopped diffusing other people's emotional time bombs

they're not talking about you.

I pack my life into boxes one more time and thank the walls that have held me for the last few years.

Nothing says Love like a breakup and 49 promotional emails

This is your purpose.

And the quiet violence of pretending

The impossibility of categories and names.

How are you?

I got a job and this is what happened.

You don't earn love through suffering.