self-care - Fess UP! My Journal Out Loud (Page 3)

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Live, Laugh, Lie

Why Happiness Isn’t a Choice — And the Truth About High-Functioning Happiness

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On the men I couldn’t hold, and the guy I was when I tried.

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How losing my guide taught me to captain my own ship.

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What if the version of me people accepted was never the whole me?

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It happened in a dentist chair, but it had been building for years.