HeyJaredMore Than a Fantasy
Mariah K. Porter writes stories and reflections about hope, healing, and becoming the love we long for.
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How to Fall in Love Wrong | Chapter 5 (opens the original)
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If you could change the world with one message, what would it be?Tonight I finally rewrote Chapter 5 of How to Fall in Love Wrong: an autobiographical case study. Odd-numbered chapters are what I can glean about falling in love wrong from past experiences, while even-numbered ones are written as I apply new approaches to love in the present. I actually have more even-numbered chapters than odd at this point, and not for a lack of past material; life has just happened at a faster rate than I’ve b
That's Why I'm So Weird! (opens the original)
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A moment of depression led to a realization about myself that reframes my perspective on myself, both looking back and toward the future. What was it I said? Something like, “How are you supposed to feel like you’re alive if it feels like the only good things that change in your life are by your own two hands?” There was more to that thought. A lot of my experience with depression has included a sense that nothing stays good if I don’t keep working hard for it, and bad things can happen and take
Recovering My Happily Ever After (opens the original)
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When I was eighteen I wrote a self-insert Beauty and the Beast retelling with the premise, “What if the prince had accepted the enchantress’s rose? And what if they were true loves?” (And I gender-swapped them.) I felt I was a hopeless romantic, and at that age I was starting to feel like the world was punishing me for it. I wrote myself as I saw myself, as both who I wanted to be and who I was afraid I was. I wrote my ‘true love’ as the boy I imagined I would be most receptive to in my painstak
My Nine-Year-Old Self Is Healing Me (opens the original)
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I never expected to find this much healing through my old journals. A few weeks ago my boyfriend and I started reading my first journal together. I didn’t have anything specific in mind at first. I thought it might be fun. I’ve always been a bit of a goofball, plus my boyfriend and I adore getting to know and see different sides of each other. I also figured reading old entries would help me with the novel I’m working on, as it involves a lot of journal entries from a twelve-year old girl. My fi
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