Coming of age is not soft work

Coming of age is not soft work

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Coming of age is not soft work
Coming of age is not soft work
If my body was on fire, you'd watch me go down in flames: on loving and healing from narcissists.

If my body was on fire, you'd watch me go down in flames: on loving and healing from narcissists.

The one about moving on after friendship breakups

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Aug 21, 2023
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I’ve spent a significant portion of the last three years navigating close friendship breakups. It’s the strangest thing: to grieve people who are still alive. Who you thought would be a part of your life forever!

I was so deeply unprepared!

The breaking:

I was no stranger to the slow ghosting that happens in friendships when two people are pulled in diffe…

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