Tag: emotions

Anger Becomes Her

Jenna November 29, 2021 No Comments

I have been suppressing my emotions for as long as I can remember. I never felt quite safe enough to feel them, and my lizard brain still wants to tell

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Taurus Full Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse

Jenna November 19, 2021 2 Comments

At 4 o’clock this morning the alarm started buzzing. Why so early, you ask? I wanted to see the lunar eclipse, so outside in my slippers and bathrobe I went.

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Jenna & the Three Therapists

Jenna November 16, 2021 2 Comments

I never thought I was going to be one of those people who pays a shit ton of money to sit on a couch and spill their guts out to

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This Is Your Family

Jenna November 7, 2021 1 Comment

People have said this to me my whole life, like that is supposed to mean that I have to comply or even care. They say it in a way that

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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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Catcalling & Consent

Jenna October 9, 2021 No Comments

I’m so tired. Tired of being sexualized, and then shamed for being sexual. This has happened to me my whole life. I don’t think my story is original. It’s just

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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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Libra Season

Jenna September 21, 2021 No Comments

Welcome to Libra season and hello autumn! Unless you live in Richmond where it is humid as hell, and we appear to be in second summer hopefully heading into actual

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