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I'm here in Australia, hello people of the world!
So I realised, today, why I was feeling "flat" yesterday.
It's been pretty tough lately, a tough phase in a pretty tough life.
In the last three years I've suffered three miscarriages, cut ties with my selfish, irresponsible and personality disordered mother, lost one colleague and one close...
So, this is a really loaded topic for me, as I spent a LOT of years being narcissistically abused and exploited, and because of my Autism and the abusive and neglectful childhood I'd had, it took me to point where I was seriously contemplating my own demise, if I didn't get out of that abuse...
I just need to write. I've felt pretty up and down this week. Extreme extremes, as well as moments of extreme wellbeing, moments of extreme ailienation and frustration, moments of extreme anxiety and terrible grief, and increased connectedness and comfort.
Oh well, I guess it's good in that, my...
So today, I'm going to talk about birth. Mine and in comparison, my seven children's.
Mine wasn't a "good" birth, as birthing experiences go, according to my mother. Although, it was good enough, in that I'm alive, and relatively unscathed.
I'm pretty sure my mum had and still has, something...
Not sure what to write. It's very hot here, today, I feel like I'm melting, and there is a fire burning out of control in a town not far from here. I live in the north east, very easterly part of this giant, arid, sparsely populated, country.
I was born in the south. In Melbourne. My parents...