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From food failures to faith (opens the original)
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A few years before I launched this Substack in 2022, I’d been diagnosed by a medical doctor with mast-cell activation syndrome (MCAS), my symptoms said to be triggered by food and environmental substances. As I had with past allergy diagnoses, I went on a highly restrictive diet again and stripped my household of any potentially triggering chemicals. The only menu items that didn’t seem to bother me were lamb, rice, and pear. For a couple of years, I ate only that for many meals.Getting the MCAS
The day that marked before and after (opens the original)
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Today marks the moment when everything changed, especially for Generation X.I was 29 at the time of the World Trade Center attacks, married for just three years and half-way through graduate school. For my MFA thesis, I was writing a collection of short stories inspired by a military-brat childhood. Some of them had already been published, or would be published that year. They contained fictionalized, premature references to my early-life trauma. Premature because 29 is too young to have fully p
When the anger workshop enrages you (opens the original)
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Anger burned inside me, roiling in my gut, making me gnash my teeth not just at night but during the day, while sitting at my computer writing, or trying to eat.The anger was good at first, I thought. Much better than fear, or a lid of depression and dark thoughts making me wonder if anyone would miss me if I weren’t around anymore. But I chewed through my mouth guard, cracked a couple of teeth, and couldn’t open my mouth wide enough to eat an apple. So I signed up for an anger workshop with a s
Learning to love Leviticus (opens the original)
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In this series, I examine each book of the Bible for its healing insights. Especially if you’ve lived through trauma and/or seek relief from suffering, you might find these essays helpful, for their blend of personal experience and scriptural analysis. Here you’ll find every essay in the series.Leviticus, the third book in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, begins with instruction on how to prepare a burnt offering to God, continues with a laundry list of rules for proper living in the an
The Brunette who writes (opens the original)
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This is my fourth year on Substack, and it’s time for a change.So I’ve tweaked the name and logo.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="211.5" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6f8W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%
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