Extra, extra #2 upcoming open letters…

“How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.”― Haruki Murakami

Hello lovelies,

Lately I have been overflowing with ideas. As you know, I have a lot going on in my life health wise and something sparked in me. I made this blog in part to show myself kindness and share with you my journey. And what better way than an open letter series?

Each week, on a Wednesday, for 5 weeks, I will be penning a letter for you all. I will be taking a prominent aspect of my health and looking at it through the lense of trauma responses because that’s how mine were often created.

I aim for them to be relatively quick reads, I will be upfront and say there will be some heaviness, after all, health isn’t always an easy topic. Some may ask why I’d be adding such a tone. It’s because I have learned acceptance and surrendering sometimes, I want to show it to you. But I also feel it serves as a reminder to be kind to our selves no matter what.

Open letters are a great way of opening up, letting ourselves heal, reflecting and giving ourselves grace, kindness and love.

In preparation for showing how I am kind to my mind, below are the topics:

Fight: voices
Flight: amnesia
Freeze: Fibromyalgia
Friend: medusa
Flop: seizures

I will be detailing these as they are key to my growth. I will show these parts of me the kindness I was never ready to give, acceptance I never thought I’d had, forgiveness to me I would never have had once upon a time. I want to share this so much, because by being kind, you help your mind.