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Somebody Like You: A Musical Journey to Love and Happiness
It’s New Year’s Eve and I’m standing on a small stage in a pub holding a bass guitar singing backup on a Keith Urban song…
Category: Resilience
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Take Me To Church – Escaping Religious Hypocrisy and Finding Love’s True Calling
I am sitting at the piano in my church, it’s the middle of the service and there are some people being brought up to the…
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Little Miss – A chronicle of personal growth through letters to myself.
I always listen to the song for the episode as I’m writing it just to really allow myself to go back to the emotional place…
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Fight Outta You – How I rise above my limitations and empowered myself during unprecedented time
I woke up in the middle of the night, completely drenched in sweat and feeling like I could throw up. It was a few months…
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The Sun Comes Up – finding hope I didn’t even realize I had lost
I’m sitting in a doctor’s office trying to breathe slowly enough to hold back the panic attack that is brewing under the surface. Doctor’s haven’t…
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The War – Please keep fighting, I want to meet you someday
Trigger warning: suicidal thoughts, thoughts of secondary suicide, self-harm, drug use, and the opioid crisis
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Just Breathe – How to rescue yourself
In 2021 I chose to change my first name to Avery as a way to make peace and grieve the loss of who I used…
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You’re Going to Be Okay – stop telling me I’m resilient
My partner and I were getting ready to leave the Boston Pizza restaurant we just had dinner in before joining a group of people to…
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Lighter than a Stone – from resentment to acceptance
One night I collapsed on the floor in a ball, ugly crying with my whole body shaking while our treadmill whirred on beside me, not…
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Leave a Light On – the mistake that haunts me
Leave a Light On – the mistake that haunts me by Avery Thatcher Listen to the audio version of this post: I was working a…