The beauty of working on yourself, and reading other people’s words and experiences, and becoming a little more [bravely] vulnerable and a little less afraid of the stigma is… you have these moments of connection with people and realize that almost everyone around you is going through this shit, too

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It was a really nice connection moment. And the more I work on myself, the more I realize how important that connection is. You can hear it when someone shares their story on a podcast — lately I’ve been listening to Brene Brown’s Summer Sister series and Glennon Doyle’s We Can Do Hard Things. You can read it in a book, find a story about it online, but my personal favorite is when the magic connection moment happens IRL. That’s because this is the one that takes the most effort on my part — a little vulnerability and taking a chance showing that authentic side of myself, sharing a little glimpse of the “real me” – what I’m really thinking or feeling. NOT a carefully filtered through my brain to make sure it makes me seem like the person I SHOULD be share. No. I’m talking raw, unfiltered, and pure. Just true sharing. That doesn’t mean course or mean or shocking. It just means saying what you mean and not editing it into something you should say. And if the person you’re talking to can connect with that truth; if they can share a “same, girl,” or a “me, too” moment with you, it’s followed by this incredible shared moment of comfort and pressure relief — and that’s it — that’s the connection. That’s the magic.

https://creatingkismetcom.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/finding-worth

When I say you, I am not sure what I mean, because I am not sure who is going to read these words except me

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please follow along with me on this journey of self-discovery. First up, I will run a half-marathon on the 1st of June. Right now I can run 5km. This is sure to be a hell of a ride!

https://saiwinter.wordpress.com/2021/02/20/terrified

I am often attracted to the people who have held the key to my expansion

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This is the first separation where I don’t feel wronged by another person. In fact, I am wondering about the magic that exists in this space. It’s just, melancholy. With a feeling of having been seen, heard, loved and accepted in your fullness. It invokes a sense of respect for another, and a sense of surrender in oneself. That’s a blessing to me.

https://namitalamba007.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/love-is-never-lost

Losing connection is too easy nowadays when almost every avenue for in person interaction is closed off

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It’s not as easy to just grab a bite to eat with someone when every outside interaction comes with the specter of covid infection. This also closes off a lot of ways to create new friends. I recently have gotten back into a card game that could offer me new avenues of creating friendships, but the venues for meeting to play are dens of covid disregard. Social media is a tentative way to connect but it rarely offers the kind of comfort that seeing people in person creates. I have never been the type of person to create online friendships with strangers from across the globe. My parents were all too effective at instilling “stranger danger” type fear over chatrooms into me as a child. I am also a person who is just afraid of posting anything too personal online. That is part of the therapeutic (hopefully) quality of this blog, to offer a more honest (although technically anonymous) space for myself. I hope also that talking through these things, if you know me or not, will be in some way relatable to you, reader. We live in lonely times, and it’s easy to feel disconnected but we all have a lot more in common than we usually think.

https://thestruggler625964548.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/disconnection