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12 Jun 2025 09:45 PM
12 Jun 2025 09:45 PM
I feel like a lot of the battles I'm facing are spiritual at the moment... the enemy attacking the vulnerabilities of my church to bring down the one that challenges them.
13 Jun 2025 05:20 PM
13 Jun 2025 05:47 PM
13 Jun 2025 05:47 PM
I still feel pretty horrid, like caring is too big an expectation for me to have on other people. But I got to harass a government department and actually got something done for a change.
Also got a bunch of laughable present things for my brother's birthday thing in a couple weeks.
13 Jun 2025 08:22 PM
13 Jun 2025 08:22 PM
It's familiar, this feeling, feeling like my stomach is cramping and like I'm going to vomit. I know it's psychosomatic but it's still not pleasant
13 Jun 2025 08:47 PM
17 Jun 2025 05:30 PM
17 Jun 2025 05:30 PM
Something something snapped in me on Sunday... it snapped in me... that feeling that why would anyone want to hear or listen to me...
17 Jun 2025 06:16 PM
17 Jun 2025 06:16 PM
hey @avant-garde sorry to hear those thoughts/feelings creeped back in.
i want to remind you: you are always worthy and deserving of being heard - that will never change. i know those thoughts can creep back in here and there, but we're here for you and we'll remind you that we care.
did something happen on Sunday, and is it something you wanna chat about?
17 Jun 2025 06:21 PM
17 Jun 2025 07:55 PM
17 Jun 2025 07:55 PM
i'm around tomorrow morning if you wanna chat more about it @avant-garde or if you wanna post a response tonight, i can read it tomorrow morning too - whatever works for you. i gotta hop off, take care 💙
17 Jun 2025 11:00 PM
17 Jun 2025 11:00 PM
It's the visiting reverend... it's too similar... his facial features... his stature... it's too similar... to my first... my first pastor...
TW: religion, rape
I looked up briefly and he pointed in my direction... it was just a moment... just an emphasis... it threw me... it silenced me...
I had asked my elder for help with this... help me to overcome this... he couldn't tell me he didn't know how... he didn't say anything... he didn't reply... to say nothing says everything...
No one seemed willing to hear me...
So I became silenced... stuck in a world that felt too similar to the one I was raised in... though dreadfully different... the similarities silenced me... still silence me...
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