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shaelyritchey
Feb 28, 20224 min read
You Are Loved
I wrote this piece with a particular person in mind. It was originally published on the Looking Glass blog There is a place I go when I...
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shaelyritchey
Feb 1, 20221 min read
Lessons From Each Month of the Year - January
What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of January... Life still clings to stark places. The real spring...
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shaelyritchey
Jan 8, 20226 min read
A Sanctuary Held in My Mind
The following is an adapted version of an advanced Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) skill called "safe space visualization." This...
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shaelyritchey
Dec 21, 20211 min read
In The Heart of Winter
Sometimes I still hear sirens in the silent spaces. An echo of the before my body still responds to. The before I can blink. The before I...
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shaelyritchey
Dec 17, 20211 min read
Everything All At Once
She is both defined by coastlines and bound by no one A shaper of landscapes Drawn only by the pull of the moon She is not unknowable if...
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shaelyritchey
Dec 15, 20212 min read
Sometimes I Wonder
Sometimes I wonder if I'm simply standing in the same place I was two years ago. Knee deep in the swirling winter water, with the tide...
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shaelyritchey
Dec 9, 20212 min read
What Only The Ocean Knows
Yesterday I stood in the face of the ocean's waves as they beat against the shore. I saw in them the same fury, pain, and grief that so...
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shaelyritchey
Dec 2, 20211 min read
Sunset Thoughts
Here are a few simple thoughts from today accompanied by the sunset that stirred them... So much of the work (and so many of the...
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shaelyritchey
Nov 25, 20211 min read
Resiliency Factors
The little victories every day that no one sees… Talk to me about resilience when you’ve clung to a year without mercy - When you’ve...
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