Meena Menon: poet, attorney, philosopher

[barefootmeena]

I googled my commaful handle with the title and this doesn’t come up in the google search. Read the full story

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[barefootmeena]

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This story and photoset was made by barefootmeena on Commaful, a site where people write short stories, poems, jokes, blog posts and more in a beautiful visual format.

[barefootmeena]

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This story and photoset was made by barefootmeena on Commaful, a site where people write short stories, poems, jokes, blog posts and more in a beautiful visual format.

[barefootmeena]

I wrote this about a woman I read about. @commaful Read the full story

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This story and photoset was made by barefootmeena on Commaful, a site where people write short stories, poems, jokes, blog posts and more in a beautiful visual format.

[barefootmeena]

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This story and photoset was made by barefootmeena on Commaful, a site where people write short stories, poems, jokes, blog posts and more in a beautiful visual format.

[barefootmeena]

They won’t let me post on Instagram. I had a physical and an annual in December 2014 before I moved back to CA in 2015. If I’m sick , if I have any illness, someone here did something to me because I was in great health when I moved back. No one at the hospital in 2016 mentioned any illness and they never even justified they’re holding me there. ——————————– This story and photoset was made by barefootmeena on Commaful, a site where people write short stories, poems, jokes, blog posts and more in a beautiful visual format.

[tnbtheories]

Everything comes and goes in time.

[barefootmeena]

This is why I don’t think I could ever be Buddhist. But this is just one quote and I haven’t really read up on it.

[plantnah]

chase your dreams, you are capable of anything ✨

[barefootmeena]

Is there a way to delete something you accidentally reblog? I just thought this woman looked cool and I hit the reblog button when I tried to scroll down.

[barefootmeena]

[everythinginlifeisalie]

[barefootmeena]

How our bodies still remember things we don’t remember. After I was raped, I didn’t remember most of the details of the rapes until I started doing trauma therapy and memories would come back. But all the memories of what happened to our bodies that our minds keep us from remembering are really damaging.

[thebuddhistmind]

“Think of how unsettled you tend to feel after an angry outburst.”

— Gyalwang Drukpa

[barefootmeena]

I never really yell when I get angry. Sometimes I raise my voice but I usually walk away and it takes a lot for me to get angry. Over the last 5 years since I was illegally incarcerated in that hospital in 2016, I yell every once in a while and feel really awful for a couple of hours after.

[thebuddhistmind]

“Think of how unsettled you tend to feel after an angry outburst.”

— Gyalwang Drukpa

[everythingwithwasabi]

Cacao Chickpea Cookie Dough “Snackwich" 

[barefootmeena]

I love chocolate chip cookie dough (only dairy free chocolate chips!) and I’ve been trying to find cacao because I have a bunch of ideas to use cacao in different forms for different vegan versions of things I want to try but I can never get it at my grocery store!

[mournfulroses]

“My happiness and unhappiness are both unbearable;”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from “The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises,”

[barefootmeena]

I used to feel that way but I learned how to use unbearably extreme emotions. Now I’m not happy unless I’m my completely sensitive self, feeling either that happiness or unhappiness. The medication was unbearable after I learned to balance life against my emotions. (I just posted this in a comment to this post but I can’t see the other comments. I’m still figuring out how to work this.

[barefootmeena]

This is my profile from my HelloPoetry page.

I’m trying to start a blog called Bipolar without Drug Companies or Doctors to meet other bipolar people who were really successful after doctors stopped trying to treat their bipolar but then faced a lot of problems from doctors and drug company employees when they found out. I should have listened to my mom when she said no one they knew on the East Coast would help me. I should have stayed here in Los Angeles after I graduated from law school in 2013 instead of going back there for that year and a half.

[barefootmeena]

I’m trying to start a blog called Bipolar without Drug Companies or Doctors to meet other bipolar people who were really successful after doctors stopped trying to treat their bipolar but then faced a lot of problems from doctors and drug company employees when they found out. I should have listened to my mom when she said no one they knew on the East Coast would help me. I should have stayed here in Los Angeles after I graduated from law school in 2013 instead of going back there for that year and a half. Read the full story

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This story and photoset was made by barefootmeena on Commaful, a site where people write short stories, poems, jokes, blog posts and more in a beautiful visual format.

[barefootmeena]

When I wrote this I was trying to balance a really bad bipolar disorder. Since then, though I learned to balance bipolar without doctors or medications, I also had to learn to overcome ptsd after being raped and then I had to learn to overcome rape. But I worked hard at all of those things. Read the full story

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This story and photoset was made by barefootmeena on Commaful, a site where people write short stories, poems, jokes, blog posts and more in a beautiful visual format.