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Peeling Off the Mask

Peeling Off the Mask

My tales of success, failure, and never even trying.

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Unemployed.

July 28, 2020July 28, 2020
MaskedLady
Anxiety, Mental Health, Women's Issues

This box represents the end my work life as I knew it. After almost 12 years at my job they decided to let me go. It’s been an incredibly hard time for me these last few months. I went on

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Untamed Passion

March 12, 2020March 12, 2020
MaskedLady
Mental Health, Women's Issues

Usually when I start a new, really good book I am a bit obsessed for awhile. I look for everything the author has ever written and fly through the catalog on my long commute each day.  This week though, a

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Social Media Break/Our Fake Lives

March 7, 2020March 8, 2020
MaskedLady
Depression, Mental Health

I desperately need a social media break. Unfortunately, I think I am not using social media to connect but just to compare. Comparing is a problem. I mean no one is posting a picture of themselves crying on their way

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The Ugly

February 8, 2020February 8, 2020
MaskedLady
Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health

The past week has been ROUGH. Like, hiding in the bathroom at work to just breathe for a minute rough. Really, I am just maintaining right now. Going to work, taking care of my kid, and sleeping. It’s all I

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New Year, New NOPE.

February 1, 2020February 1, 2020
MaskedLady
Mental Health, Physical Health

I HATE this time of year.  No sunlight, icy commutes, everyone is sick, and most of all, New Year’s resolutions. If I hear “new year, new you” one more time I am going into hiding until Spring. I get it,

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Stories Save Lives

January 31, 2020March 4, 2020
MaskedLady
Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health

Well, the hard week I was having has extended into a second week. So, rather than push myself to write something that my heart won’t be in, I am just going to share a TEDx Talk from one of my

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“What should we call you?”

January 25, 2020February 1, 2020
MaskedLady
Depression, Mental Health

At the age of 36, I still don’t really know what I wish people would call me. By saying this I mean I do not have a preferred name. You know, like how some people named Elizabeth go by Liz,

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