the third day
Hope and the willingness to let the day roll over you is a discipline, which means that sometimes it is VERY HARD and you have to practice interrupting your own anxiety spirals in order to notice why your day is sideways.
the second day
Darkness is no friend to the light. And the more we build our fire, the bigger and brighter it is.
the first day
Today’s failures were the small mistakes, the ones we say or act without forethought. Today’s anxiety kept us from perfection, but it always does that.
twelve days
We are in a time of darkness but also a time when the promise of the light returning is deeply meaningful.
reaching toward the light
Trauma causes us to create new ways to behave, to keep ourselves safe, to keep the dark away.
I dream of disappointing my mother
I had a bad dream which was trying to be a good dream, but it was a bad dream because none of it is true.