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"The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma" by Bessel van der Kolk 📘

My honest review🤓: I bought this book based on general recommendations, expecting a light psychological non-fiction read, but instead, I got 600 pages of powerful text that took me three whole weeks to push through like a total nerd🫣, despite my university background and love for psychology and... read more

I am trying to get into Master’s

I believe there are people like me who had to write a research proposal for a finished manuscript 😂cause professors are lazy to read the whole book. One actually did but he is retired so he cant take graduate students…I need to contact his colleages but with a research proposal I swear its... read more

Finished first 100 pages of my book!

Nothing big, just celebrating 100 pages of the story I've been waiting ten long years to share someday! Secrets of the Soul Stones is a gritty, epic tale of a fractured wolfdog-family, and their efforts to push through the past to save their world. Estranged siblings Crystal and Fang struggle to... (edited) read more

Have you ever wanted to live inside of book?

This question is the opening words of Kate Quinn's book The Astral Library and really made me think about whether I have had situations where I would have preferred to live on the pages of books rather than in my own reality. And I noticed the answer pretty quickly, that it has been like this,... read more

Some little scribbles

I have a lot of pages of eyes.. my little sister calls it my biblically accurate sketchbook

"Words I Hope I'll Never Need"

I wrote it on the first page, then between the pages, again and again and again, Until my hands started bleeding, Until I whispered it even in my sleep. By the last page, there was nothing left but his name. The world read it and knew. He read it too, yet never knew. Wish I never had to... (edited) read more