Category: Personal Writings
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Tell Me, How Do You Feel in Your Body Right Now?
Brutally Honest Postpartum Journal Entries (a series) Saturday May 31, 2025 || 27 Days Postpartum with Flora Kathleen I have been resisting the urge to cover up and hide my new body. I don’t personally feel ashamed of my body, but I worry about how others perceive me and I feel I must stay hidden…
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The Open Door
For the first time in a long time, things felt sweet and safe. I asked myself if I was ready to conceive another child and “disrupt” this little dance we had all learned the steps to. I also asked myself if I was ready to “give up” my body in order to grow another life…
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On a Healing Journey
Each year before my birthday I sit down to reflect on my life, where I’ve been, and where I think I’m going. This is that little reflection: ✨ On a Healing Journey ✨ “On a healing journey” is the best way I can think to describe my life right now. Some days I feel like…
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Remembering Maw — Memorial Day Cookout 5/28/2012
Memorial Day Cookout 5/28/2012 — A Personal Journal Entry This is an excerpt from a journal entry of mine from May 2012. I was at a Memorial Day family cookout at Maw’s house. That evening of the cookout I spent time looking at one of Memaw’s (Maw’s mother) scrapbooks and I also remember having a…
Ashley Blair Smith 