HeyJaredEmbodied Deconstruction
writing at the intersection of body & soul deconstructing faith | chronic illness & disability from the author of "psalms of deconstruction"
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Couch-bound & coping. (opens the original)
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I haven’t known how to write this. How to write an update on how I’m doing. I’ve only tried once, a draft that turned into a rambling recount of an entire conversation with my neurologist, from the very first week of this saga—the week of July 13th.Two months later and not much has changed.Here’s the two-sentence update: We think I have a spinal CSF leak. I suspect a soft-tissue injury in my back caused a tear in the tissue that surrounds the spinal cord.1My main sympto
35 steps for my 35th birthday. (opens the original)
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I wrote the following poem well over a month ago, after journaling for pages and pages about the surgery that had just been scheduled for July 22nd—the day after my 35th birthday. I wrote about the care I deserve and hoped I would receive. About the nerves I had as it approached. About everything I was feeling and reeling through. And then, I opened the poem-a-day journal I write in.The day’s prompt was: Write a poem about beginning
Celebrating: one year on Substack. (opens the original)
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I thought I’d be approaching July—and one year on Substack—with a rebrand. Instead, I’m leaning further into the name I chose from the beginning: Embodied Deconstruction. For me, as a chronically ill/disabled person, what I named it last year has taken on a whole new meaning this year.What started as a project of writing solely on deconstruction as a concept or on redefining theologies and practices I grew up with, has become writing about how it lives and moves and breathes within my body, whic
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