All this time I thought intentionality had to be rigid. Schedules, routines, habits, patterns that you lock into your life. I've tried time and time again to bring rigidity into my day-to-day, thinking that if I just get the right patterns going I would solve all my life's problems: eating healthy and exercising, maintaining regular … Continue reading Creating The Life I Want
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You Can Find it Again
I’ve been working on an autobiographical/self-help novel lately: I’m rereading my old journals and writing to my younger self to offer the compassion, forgiveness, comfort, and hindsight that I didn’t have then. In the first two or three days I got 4,000 words down, and I’ve been having trouble getting back to it. This isn’t … Continue reading You Can Find it Again
It Wasn’t Your Fault.
TW: this is for victims of SA. I'm writing this because I need to hear these things, and I'm sharing it because I doubt I'm the only one. It wasn't your fault. Period. No one gets to gatekeep by telling you that what they experienced was worse, or that what you experienced was not that … Continue reading It Wasn’t Your Fault.
Depression in Recovering Happily Ever After
Are you curious about how, exactly, I address depression in my Recovering Happily Ever After series? I have yet to come across a certain diversity in how depression is portrayed in fiction, or at least I haven't found any fiction that intentionally portrays depression in these specific ways. There are different stages of depression, and … Continue reading Depression in Recovering Happily Ever After
That Prince Guy
a Snow White novella Guy is a guy who can’t even deal with his own problems. When Princess Gabby shows up and expects him to help solve all of hers, he’s all for walking away. He would do it, too, if she and her new enchanter friend weren’t holding him hostage. Guy’s captors face the … Continue reading That Prince Guy
Mariah K. Porter 