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Evacuee: September 1939 -1945
Eight years old and standing on the gently sloping Rye-hills of Lutterworth, overlooking the meandering river Swift lazily belieing its name as it threads its way from the Hall in the far distance on my left, then on and under the railway viaduct on my right. ...
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I had to grieve all over again when I saw my husband back to war for the second time. This time was different, because he wasn't just my husband anymore. He was now the father of my child that I was going to be raising alone. ;But it was MY job to suck it up and get on with life.And life went ...
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Browse for more stories Klarity's Story > Catagory > Becoming a Visible Woman A series of bereavements and events in my childhood left me hardwired for loss, grief and abandonment in my life. My adaptive behaviour was to make myself and my needs invisible. Writing is a tool to help me unravel my life and become visible again.
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Becoming a Visible Woman, A Jumbled Life - article 1
For those who are fortunate, life can more or less be expected to follow a certain order. Imagine an individual who is born into a relatively loving and supportive family and enjoys a generally happy and contented childhood. ...
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Becoming a Visible Woman, Going Digital - article 2
Someone whom I deem to be very wise, recently gave me some great inspiration. He used the analogy between the old way of taking photographs with film -v- the new way of taking shots digitally. He compared these two methods ...
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Becoming a Visible Woman, Getting Plastered - article 3
With the demise of my most recent relationship came the realisation that all the 'self-help' efforts to heal myself up until that point in my life had been no more than just metaphorical plasters placed over my emotional ...
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Becoming a Visible Woman, Devoured - article 4
Once upon a time... I was abandoned and emotionally abused by my family of origin, not because they chose to or even wanted to do that to me but because they had been abused and emotionally deprived too and just didn't ...
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Dream Wallet
At various turning points throughout my life, especially during times of deep loss and sadness, I have had strong dreams. The type of surreal dreams that are full of meaning, where the colours are vivid and bright and emotions ...
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Good Grief
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An Authentic Orbit
I haven’t written in a while, I co-parent with a difficult man and the last six months or so have been tough for my pre-adolescent daughters and I. We are coming out the other side now; we are wiser and stronger than we were ...
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Self-Recovery
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