Tag: Emotions
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On (Un)Masking
This is a topic I have been thinking about a lot over the past year or so. A topic I wanted to write about for a while. Yet it is also a topic that – despite all the reading, research and contemplation I have done – still seems to be hazy for me. Am I…
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Misericordias Domini (2nd Sunday After Easter) ~ 14th April 2024
The following sermon was not an easy one for me to write, and I’m still not sure how much I like it or how happy I am with it. But I got a fair bit of positive feedback from women from both congregations where I preached this past Sunday. One thing in particular stuck with…
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Healing F***ing Hurts Sometimes
Form the moment I heard BLÜ EYES’s song “healing hurts” for the first time it resonated with me. A lot actually. But at first not because of how therapy and my healing journey felt like when I initially came across that song. When I heard that song first I was in a pretty decent place…
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Sermon – Last Sunday After Epiphany 2024
I don’t know about you, but these days I feel as if there is a heaviness weighing on everything and everyone. Two young people violently lost their lives these past few days. The press conference about the “ForuM-Studie” on Thursday. The neverending images of war, violence, and death in Gaza, the Ukraine, the Sudan, and…
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When Hope Seems Lost…
It’s Friday night and I am sitting here on my couch in the comfort and safety of my four walls. It feels like the weight of the world is resting in my shoulders. 2024 is barely a month old. Yet so much has already happened. More than I can keep track of. The war in…
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Autism Assessment Part 4 – Preparing For The Diagnostic Interview
Last week, I got an email from Embrace Autism, where I was offered an earlier appointment than the one I had booked a few months ago. Originally my diagnostic interview would have been next February, but now it’ll be on December 7th. So, just a little less than four weeks from today. At first, I…
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A Brief Update
I’ve been rather quiet on here, and not because I don’t enjoy writing this blog or because I have nothing to say. In fact, I have started several blog posts these past weeks (and months to be honest), that I haven’t been able to finish yet. Some of them require some more research so that…
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Imposter Syndrome
Do you know those times when a topic comes up in a conversation, you keep thinking about it, and then it seems to pop up – so to speak – all around you? I feel like that’s what’s been happening to me this week. During my last therapy session, my therapist and I discussed imposter…
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Moving!
I’m 35 years old and next week I’ll move for the 8th to 13th time, depending on how you count and what you count as a move*. And only the first two to three moves where during my childhood. So you’d think I got rather good at this over time. Well, yeah, not so much.…
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Heartbreak High or Representation in Media
[Spoiler Alert: I’ll mention a few things from the whole first season of “Heartbreak High”.] When it comes to representation in media I can count myself lucky and privileged. As I white girl, I saw a lot of girls who looked like me on TV. Same goes with characters in books. And even when the…