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Healing in Real Time

6 stories from this chapter of Cell to Self.

A sunrise over mountains with the words Here in the Waiting and Healing in Real Time

Here in the Waiting

Today was not a good day. I looked at myself and realized I wasn't ready for the kind of relationship I'd been asking God for.…

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Amy in a bathroom with a towel wrapped around her hair beside the title The Stuff in the Shower

The Stuff in the Shower

I spent years learning to keep my belongings close and always be ready to run. Then one morning, I found my shampoo sitting in the shower and realized something had…

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Hayley and Me

Sometimes Home Was Hayley

Hayley is gone. This is her story. Her story with me, for the short time I was blessed to call her mine. I often have to remind myself that she’s gone. I still reach for my phone…

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girl walking away

The Day I Walked Away

Sometimes walking away isn’t giving up. The day I walked away wasn’t the day I stopped loving someone. It was the day I finally started loving…

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Dear me

Dear Me,

You don’t get to pretend you don’t remember what it took to get here. This wasn’t handed to you—it was a rebuild. Piece by piece. Choice by choice. And somehow, through all of it……

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