Hey. A month ago, literally. I found myself recovering from an emergency surgery and would a week later be diagnosed with Endometriosis. I mean yeah I always knew that the type of menstrual pain I kept having wasn't normal but I didn't wanna be a baby about it. What I did not expect however is the sort of avalanche that it triggered it my life. Sorta making me aware of things I had not seen before and even those I had purposefully ignored for a long time because of fear. When I was at home recovering next to my mum, and she'd tell me all these home remedies for women, she'd say "you're old now, a woman now". I thought and do get what she meant, my body is changing leaving behind childhood, worry free and pain free existence. I always laughed and said I didn't want to grow up, that I was still her little baby. I do know that she didn't think of it like I'm seeing it now, like I'm seeing it Manifest in my emotional and mental well being, an...
Well, this was supposed to be all my hot takes bundled up into one... it's not. This is like a journal, like a support group, I share my life lessons, frustrations and someday I'll share my poetry in hopes that I'll help someone heal, or start the process. It's truly simple to grow when you know you're never alone.