Community and Connection
Community and Connection
I make a doll to hold what one woman is carrying. She writes back to say I read her correctly about something she never told me. She gets an object built to help her trust her own sight. I get proof that mine still works.
That is what connection looks like here. Two people, one object, and the same thing moving in both directions.
Collector stories, past editions of the Dispatch, and writing about mental illness from inside it. No forum. No challenge. No performance of being okay.
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Community Connection: What Passes Between Us
The week I started hearing voices, I told three people. My mother brought flowers. My sister called to ask whether we had a carbon monoxide…
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The Haunting Is The Healing: Where Trauma Meets The Unseen
The world that hurt you has no language for the medicine that arrives in the aftermath. The medicine that often looks like a ghost, an…
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The Price of Disappearing
The Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, ed. 12 Invisibility Has a Cost Sometimes invisibility is survival. You learn to dim your edges so you can keep breathing.…
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Let Death Be Death. Stop Dragging It Forward.
The Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Ed. 11 Let Death Be Death Fall has arrived. Things are dying. That is not poetry. It is biology. Leaves brown…
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Hello from the Studio
Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Ed. 10 My Ink-Blue, Bony Parts This past month has been all bones and blueprints. I’ve been building the hidden systems that…
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Grounded in the Rockets’ Red Glare
Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, ed. 9 When the sky starts showing off, some nervous systems brace. Fourth of July can be beautiful if your body reads…
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This One Starts in the Dark
The Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, edition 8 Some things only reveal themselves after they are cut open. A stone can look ordinary until the saw finds…
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Unbind Your Inner Empress
Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Ed. 7 In This Edition Let the Empress Keep Her Shadow The Empress has suffered from good publicity. She has become the…
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Self-Care That’s Pure Grit, Not Glitter
Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Ed. 6 Hello Seeker, An Epsom salt bath can loosen the body for an hour. Then the old ache creeps back in,…
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The Wounded Healer: Embracing Your Story Through Creativity
The Wounded Healer’s Lesson The archetype of the wounded healer teaches us that our deepest pain can also become a powerful gift—the ability to guide…
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Living in Bipolar Disorder and the Grayness of Mental Illness
March 30 is World Bipolar Day, a time to raise awareness and break the stigma surrounding bipolar disorder. But for many of us living with…
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Spring Toward Renewal and Balance
The Shadow Seekers’ Dispatch, Edition 5 A Spring of Renewal and Balance March is a threshold with mud on its boots. The ground has not…