Category: JENNA’S JOURNALS

37 Lessons Learned

Jenna October 19, 2021 No Comments

Lemony Snicket had a series of unfortunate events. Me? I had a myriad of fuck-ups, many moments of either falling on my ass or showing it. This seems to be

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We’re All Mad Here

Jenna October 6, 2021 1 Comment

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries hat-makers would routinely use mercury nitrate during production, and exposure to this metal over time caused these tradesmen to go slightly insane.

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Four Other F-Words

Jenna September 28, 2021 2 Comments

One thing I learned very early on in my therapy/wellness journey, or whatever we are calling it these days, is that when I get super anxious my body switches over

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Punctuation

Jenna September 24, 2021 No Comments

I have a love / hate relationship with semicolons. I want to get one tattooed on my body, and I refuse to write with them. I won’t use them in

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Women’s Equality

Jenna August 26, 2021 No Comments

I find it quite fitting that Women’s Equality Day (8/26) is during Virgo season. Or maybe it’s some terrible astrological joke considering its symbol is the Virgin (Mary). The definition

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Jenna, You Should…

Jenna August 10, 2021 No Comments

Do this. Do that. Go left. Turn right. Fuuuuuuuuck. Can I ever do anything right? According to everyone else, no. Isn’t that what we are taught growing up? To be

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For the Children

Jenna July 23, 2021 No Comments

First it was all the abortion laws. We were told it was to protect the children, an unborn life, forgetting about the women suffering over their labors. The mother could

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Et Tu, Brute?

Jenna July 16, 2021 No Comments

We fight for our places in this world. We are in a constant war between ourselves and the people around us, their expectations of us that we could never possibly

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Creativity

Jenna June 30, 2021 No Comments

We tell each other to create things, but then we judge each other for what we created and how we created it. The inner critic inside ourselves is the hardest

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The Critic

Jenna June 23, 2021 No Comments

We all have it, that inner critic inside your head that keeps telling you that you are doing it wrong, that you are a piece of shit, that you need

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