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8 Years Ago: Birthday Dog, Spiritual High from the Junkie Journals.

October 10, 2020by poppyshell81 2 Comments

I woke abruptly and my first thought was that it was Charlie’s thirteenth birthday. I immediately felt brighter than the last few weeks which had all been a shade of […]

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11 Years Ago: Sex Work Secrets of Gypsy Me. Navigating trauma in all the wrong ways.

October 1, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

These photos are from exactly 11 years ago, I was unsettled and moving about lots, staying at friends houses and in holiday cottages, desperately trying to find somewhere to settle […]

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5 Years Ago: For My Recovery Worker.

September 25, 2020by poppyshell81 3 Comments

This is a bittersweet journal entry to review as I discovered that the person who was key to my recovery from opiate dependency and addiction has recently passed away. I’m […]

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11 Years Ago: Breaking Down and Letting Go

August 26, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

Eleven years ago I was in the process of breaking down, my mums death in February 2009 had released previously repressed trauma and I was struggling to come to terms […]

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8 Years Ago: Grateful Junkie in Need of Solitude.

August 20, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

” We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life” Tennessee Williams 1957 Just been reading some old journals and can’t help but smile, funny […]

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10 Years Ago: Heroin Experiments

July 25, 2020by poppyshell81 4 Comments

The first time I tried heroin was not an accident, I had been searching for a solution for some time. I was looking for something to cushion my reality, to […]

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Photo Memories: Before Heroin, Before Loss.

July 16, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

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4 Years Ago: Stigma & Stereotype- Just a junkie whore.

July 14, 2020by poppyshell81 1 Comment

The photo’s above were taken during my methadone detox, it’s weird that it’s only four years ago as so much has happened since them, and when these photos were taken […]

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Heroin Me: Photo Memories 2010

July 7, 2020by poppyshell81 1 Comment

Reviewing these photo’s is bittersweet, at this point in my heroin use I had no desire to stop, I’d found my solution to living with a tormented mind. I opted […]

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Trauma Uncovered: Be Brave Little Warrior.

July 6, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

What happens when you have repressed or minimised your trauma your whole life and you finally reach a place of uncovering that and bringing it into the open. The result […]

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