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Marriage: there’s more to the story
Marriage: there’s more to the story

A lot of false narratives about what marriage was, what it wasn’t, and what it should be stayed ruminating in our heads for years before we met. And then we got together, and marriage felt like something we both wanted. But we were left with solving the large puzzle of how to get these intrusive narratives worked out first.

How well do we tolerate difference and otherness?
How well do we tolerate difference and otherness?

So much of our history is thrown into the mix of our present day dilemmas — how we were raised, the culture we grew up in, the dysfunction we normalized, the fears we embedded into our nervous systems, and even the roles we play in our other relationships. How do we show up well for each other when we can’t fully understand all of the things that came before us?

Remembering me
Remembering me

There have been too many moments in my life where I’ve had to ask myself, was any of this truly my idea? Sometimes it takes a daily remembering to acknowledge the truth of who you are and why you’re here. This is mine.

My little worlds in one room: the conflict in our minds
My little worlds in one room: the conflict in our minds

Each group feels like a little world of mine. At some point in time, that little world may have been my whole world. And then I grew, and changed, and saw. Who’s still here?

dear today: Life with a narcissist
dear today: Life with a narcissist

It’s the story we’ve heard a million times over. The girl who’s miserable but won’t leave. We think it’s simple. But a narcissist’s job is to make it anything but simple. Is it a lack of self-worth? Is it just manipulation tactics at their finest? Or can it be a world we may never truly understand?

“I want to be driven by the engine that’s inside of me rather than the engine that is the culture of someone else’s expectation.”

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  • Saying kindly to yourself “I am safe with me” reorients around your own standards, and it takes the power and responsibility away from another person to be your safety enforcer. Otherwise, we are constantly on someone else’s hook.

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  • Much of what we think we know about others is shaped by our “programmed selves,” influenced by societal norms and biases. It is only when we are confronted with the truth that we are challenged to dismantle the myths and false perceptions that have been hardwired into our minds.

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  • "Am I taking something systemic and making it personal?" Maybe your feelings are a natural byproduct of your environment. If you feel ill-equipped or out of place in certain spaces, it could be that society has not made that space easily accessible for you in the first place.

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Someday today is written by Abby, a mom, wife, daughter, and aspiring cycle healer.