HeyJaredIn Light of Knowing
Cassandra Stark, a writer and mental health advocate, explores trauma and healing. A foodie, hiker, and mom to Isa, her life's work reflects her journeys and mindful living.
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The End of the Wall (opens the original)
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I’m sitting at my desk two hours past the end of a guided BeMo writing circle, feeling too much like I often do afterward. Abandoned. Worthless. Challenged in ways that make me not want to do this again.I keep going because I Know what I Know. I Know why I do this.In Light of Knowing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="e
Keeping Isn't the Same as Choosing (opens the original)
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What It Looks Like to Talk About the Same Thing Over and Over (opens the original)
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One of the questions I get asked often is what to do when something is prolonged. People often feel like they’re doing it wrong when they arrive on the page in therapy — or in their own practice — and their mind wants to tell them it is the same, I already wrote about this, I already dealt with this.But the mind is reacting. The mind is trying to draw in sameness where there is difference — and you have already done it differently. You’ve already opened the door to doing it differently, simply b
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now (opens the original)
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At the start of July, I went away. I asked a question, steering as far from an ultimatum as possible when, really, that was never the point. It really was just a question. And then I left to hold space for my own answer.Thirty-six hours in the mountains.I went camping by myself.I sat by a lake. I ordered a cheeseburger at a local diner, standing in a long line filled with families that smelled of lake and sunscreen. Everything about it was the quintessential summer. Busy and bustling. But to me
Growing Apart So We Don’t Grow Apart (opens the original)
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I am alone.But not always lonely.The aloneness comes from realizing that I was, at times, lonely before.And almost never, actually, alone. Read more
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