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Category: Recovery

A Year Spent Surviving

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Personal reflections, Recovery

I’m going to keep this short because 2020 has been so chaotic and exhausting, it’s taken me several hours to come up with those two words to describe it. First, of course, I want to thank everyone for everything you did to help us get through last year. I left my retail job in March […]

Posted on January 1, 2021 Leave a comment

Future Focus

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Psychology and mental illness, Recovery

From what I have read about trauma recovery, the process can take a lifetime. The damage done over decades cannot be overwritten in a few years. I’m looking to the future with cautious hope. While a new year may not be a magical reset, I am reflecting on my priorities. I want to improve my […]

Posted on December 18, 2020 Leave a comment

What I Do and Don’t Know

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Personal reflections, Recovery, Science and Philosophy

The older I get, the more I realize how inadequate my education was. My writing, my strongest skill, is littered with grammatical errors. I am passionate about the injustices I’ve discovered in the years since I’ve started educating myself, instead of relying on my parents to inform me about the world. When two people are […]

Posted on December 6, 2020 Leave a comment

The Barriers to Stable Housing

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cynthiajeub
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Justice and Advocacy, Recovery

I want to preface this post by saying thank you. You are giving us a chance at a place to live, and you all have been giving as much as you possibly can to help. That is tremendous. 29 people have contributed $3,720 to our moving fundraiser. That’s on average over $100 per person. Many […]

Posted on October 30, 2020 Leave a comment

Creative Flow (Futility Revisited)

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cynthiajeub
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Personal reflections, Recovery

I’ve just written over 800 words of stream-of-consciousness prose, and it will never see the light of day, thank you very much. Many people are concerned about me right now but this is about the same as it’s always been. By that I mean I’ve always dealt with depression. I used to live in denial […]

Posted on October 5, 2020 Leave a comment

Seeking a Home in the Midst of Collapse

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cynthiajeub
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Justice and Advocacy, Personal reflections, Recovery

Every night, I get up at least twice in the night to bring meals to my partner. He is too disabled now to get his own food from the kitchen. We have a flight of carpeted stairs separating our bedroom from the kitchen and going down them gives him chest pain and a rapid heart […]

Posted on September 28, 2020 Leave a comment

The Urgency-Sustainability Problem of Poverty

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cynthiajeub
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Recovery

I spend a lot of my time explaining myself to people who don’t know what it’s like to be truly poor. In many ways, I myself do not know what it is like to experience extreme poverty. What I know is that it is terrifying and traumatizing to be on the edge of not having […]

Posted on September 6, 2020 Leave a comment
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