HeyJaredSandra Postma
Author. Book coach. Speaker. Personal essays on writing, history, and life with chronic illness.
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Living A Thousand Lives (opens the original)
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As a spoonie you often feel like you’re missing out on life. But even before I became ill, when I was around ten years old, I wanted to become an actress. Because - and may I quote myself here -: ‘That way I can live many different lives I won’t get to live as one person.’Ten year old me was a smart lass.I didn’t become an actress. I couldn’t handle eyes on me. I danced in groups, but never solo. I sang along to music, but never without it hiding my own voice. There’s a definite pattern here tha
The Chronic Grief of Chronic Illness (opens the original)
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Having chronic and mental illness isn’t for the faint of heart. Unfortunately, I am faint of heart. Mine is pieced together after having had it repeatedly smashed to the ground by people I trusted explicitly over the last twenty years. Mine didn’t turn to stone or black. Mine became softer, more squishy and even easier to stab into and draw blood from.At the same time, I did build a wall around me. I wouldn’t let anyone in. Not truly. The past decade I made hard work of taking down the circular
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