Ashley :) Forever seeking to know Aslan better in this world. But forever wishing I could go to Narnia too. (If you see someone named @thissideofparadise44, that’s just me in disguise ;) ~all Narnian book quotes and references from: Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. 7 vols. | Movie quotes and references from: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Directed by Andrew Adamson, Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, 2005. | Prince Caspian. Directed by Andrew Adamson, Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, 2008. | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Directed by Michael Apted, Walden Media, 2010.
So excited to share this with everyone. It is my sincere desire and prayer that my story and experiences will encourage others and help any other religious OCD sufferers out there recognize their symptoms and be able to seek the help they need.
5 hours of sleep but the grace of God prevails. treasures in jars of clay and all that. in a little over five hours i’m going to be walking down the aisle. pray!
Would please appreciate prayers for a slightly concerning medical thing that has popped up in the last few days, that it would clear up and that I would have peace about getting it checked! It’s most likely nothing serious and related to having given birth 4 months ago, but it’s still not fun to deal with or worry about for a week until my appointment. :/
being the weird girl all your life and always hiding parts of yourself to fit in and then meeting someone who actually likes you because of those weird parts rather than in spite of them is the most healing experience in the world i hope that all you little freaks in my phone can also find this someday
question 2 my followers: what’s the most obscure piece of media you’ve ever developed a fixation with? not obscure as in “at one point had a reasonably thriving fandom that eventually faded” but something you feel you were almost entirely alone in your appreciation for
If you have a friend that wants to vent to you but doesn't want solutions but you are a solutions-oriented person, may I suggest Silly Solutions (TM)? For instance, whenever my friend complains about the people at her job being dumb, I remind her that if only one of us had studied engineering, we could create a giant hippo robot with laser eyes to destroy them. It fulfills my need to offer a solution, doesn't violate her boundary of not wanting to problem solve, AND it cheers us both up!
If you ever are tempted to think that instrumental music is unimportant you should know that Gwen’s music in the beginning of Across the Spider-Verse has made me feel understood in my depression like no other music ever has
I want to be seeing my therapist once a week right now. I am currently seeing her once a month. She charges $130 per session, and she’s not in network with my insurance, but I’ve also been seeing her for a decade and she helps me so much.
If I could get insurance to cover it, I think I’d pay literally $25 a session. So I could see her 4 times for less than the price of one session otherwise.
I have tried calling my insurance to ask if there was any sort of exception I could apply for since I’ve been seeing her for 10 years and it is clearly in my best interest to continue seeing her, but in true insurance fashion, I was flatly told “No” and given no other ideas at all.
Just wondering if anyone has ever heard of some way to get an exception for someone out of network.
The first draft philosophy that has finally gotten me writing for fun isn't "worst version of story" type framing, it's "tell the story to yourself."
Your story isn't ready for polished prose, you don't know what happens yet. This doesn't make it Bad Writing, it's a different type of writing. And this ties into why I think the plotter vs pantser debate misses the mark - both detailed outlines AND make-it-up-as-you-go first drafts are ways to make up the story.
This part is for you, so how you do it should be whatever is the most fun or satisfying way to tell yourself the story.
Please pray for my dad. He has a spot of skin cancer that will need to be removed. It should be fairly easy and it’s just a surgery, but please pray it’s completely successful and doesn’t come back.
The thing about courage is I always have this “I was brave once but this is again” reaction like it’s hard and exhausting and crippling to push myself to do the scary thing all the time and I don’t think I have it in me to just continuously make that choice, but actually making that choice is often what gives you the energy and rejuvenation to do the next brave thing, because it is a good choice and that means you will experience some good about it, even if there’s bad and scary too, and the good is self sustaining. The good is life!