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Kiya Taylor
Mar 9
Promoted to Mother

There’s a lot of mind talk in this essay. A lot of mind talk that isn’t exactly kind to myself.

I decided to keep it all in, not because I think it’s healthy — but because I suppose in ways, to remind anyone who needs to hear it that we all have these moments.

When we bring a manicured version of ourselves to our writing, we miss out on being human, and seriously, isn’t that what sense making and writing and sharing is all about?

One evening, I looked down at my feet after feeling an excessive heaviness – a sensation I had mentally logged away as being my own fault from the weight I still carry – and noticed my heels. I was shocked to see how dry and deeply cracked they were. Of all the signs and warnings and encouragements my body had given me to take better care of it – the heels were the last straw playing out like a Greek tragedy before my eyes.
Kiya Taylor
Mar 9
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