HeyJaredFrom the Olive Branch
Keeping peace and purpose in times of tension, grief, loss, fear, depression, addiction, and trials.
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Highly Sensitive Individual (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThere are things I know without knowing how I know them. My mother's voice, for instance, when she is trying to keep the tears from entering it. There is a particular place her voice goes and then becomes a fraction softer, a little more deliberate, as though each word has to pass through something harsh before it can leave her mouth. I know that place. Not because she told me about it. Because I have heard it enough times t
Count Your Victories (opens the original)
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I wrote this poem about a dear friend of mine that passed away recently. She passed on so much wisdom, grace and love to those around her. She inspired and pushed me to go into the counseling field. I will miss my friend Nancy, but I see her in all the work I do every day.Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedYou knew that some wounds do not close because we ask them to, that some roads circle back to the same old places, that falling does not erase the distance
Beneath the Waterline (opens the original)
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I was twelve when someone first drew attention to the bumps on my skin. I was wearing my favorite tankini at my great-aunt’s community pool. I hated the heat, and summer meant there was no hiding beneath sweatshirts anymore. As I stood drying off, an older woman I’d never met looked at my arms and asked, “Honey, what’s wrong with your skin?”I looked down, confused. Small patches of rough bumps covered my shoulders, almost like permanent goosebumps. I shrugged and walked away. Until then, I had n
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