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A family member in the hospital became my go-to gut reaction whenever I felt in danger. When I lived in New York, I was walking home at 3:00 a.m. one time and I felt like a guy was following me. Without missing a beat, I whipped out my cell phone and went, “What, Mom? Dad’s in the hospital! I’ll be right there!” and started running. So first of all, even in mortal danger, I felt like I needed an excuse to run away from a man for fear of offending him. But second of all, I assumed he’d take pity on me in that moment. “Well, I can’t rape her now, the poor girl’s dad’s in the hospital. I hope
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No one said that OCD meant a pattern of intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and actions to try to calm them (compulsions).
At any point, the princess could have left each of these relationships, but she didn’t. The problem wasn’t who she fell in love with, the problem was how she stayed in unhappy situations long after the writing was on the wall. She had let herself be controlled by a combination of romantic obsession and her own lack of self-esteem. The princess looked in the mirror and said, “I am worth more than this curse says I am.”
OOH, IT FEELS SO FINE WHEN YOU DO NOT TRY! NOT TRY AT ALL! BECAUSE GOD FORBID I WORKED MY HARDEST AND DOUBLED DOWN ON BEING AN ARTIST AND I STILL WASN’T THE BEST. THE THOUGHT GIVES ME A PAIN IN MY CHEST. SO IT’S BETTER TO NOT TRY NOT TRY AT ALL THAN HAVE TO FACE SOME COLD HARD TRUUUUUUTHS!
“My mama always compared bad thoughts to a bird in a barn. If a bird flies into the barn, you can acknowledge that there’s a bird in the barn, but you don’t have to suddenly make a nest for it. Just let the bird fly in and it’ll eventually fly out.” Which is, in essence, cognitive behavioral therapy.
Being honest disarms people. We are poorly trained on how to be open and vulnerable with even our closest friends, let alone our enemies. So when you lay yourself bare to another person, it shows them your mutual humanity and can soften them. This tactic has freed me to stop seeing my own vulnerability as weakness.
The Anti-Haunted Mansion: Get ready to shriek! This haunted house explores something even scarier than ghosts and ghouls—the prospect of nothing coming after death! Grab your kids and travel from empty void to empty void symbolizing the endless, emotionless nothing of what is most likely everyone’s fate. Can you say, “Boo”?
