Therapy Is Not Enough!! I Need Taylor Swift To Shout The Lyrics Of This Is Me Trying In My Ears!!

“Words are so powerful. They can crush a heart, or heal it. They can shame a soul or liberate it. They can shatter dreams or energize them. They can obstruct connection or invite it. They can create defenses, or melt them. We have to use our words wisely.”

— Jeff Brown

When Oscar Wilde said,

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"

and,

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all,"

and,

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

must be the season

of the witch

🎃

“You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.”

— Kid Cudi

Dobby is free...

You know the melancholic feeling when you listen to an old song and it brings everything from the past back, the friendships, inside jokes, memories, events.

A few weeks ago, I saw a tiktok of a person mockingly saying, “when his only ‘trauma’ is his parents getting divorced” and I haven’t stopped thinking about it for a while. It is a common idea that frustrates me beyond belief. Just because a traumatic experience is common and or not “as bad” as other traumatic experiences does not make it any less traumatic. Seeing your parents separate and having to deal with that for your entire childhood is very hard. Especially if there’s fighting and bitterness between the two parties, which, once again, is very common. Trauma is trauma. Is there different levels of severity? Yes. Does that make it any less valid. No. Not at all. No child should have to deal with trauma, even if that trauma isn’t “that bad” or common. And a person’s experience with that trauma should never be belittled.

Shawn leaving the Super Bowl game in LA (February 13th, 2022)