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7 Years Ago: Sex Work Scare and Spiritual Recovery.

October 12, 2020by poppyshell81 5 Comments

I’m continuing to review journals as I work on completing my memoir, the suggestions and advice of my editor has been incredibly valuable and I’m slowly working through it and […]

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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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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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3 Years Ago: Abstinence, Substance Free Sex and the Reluctant Role Model

August 24, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

After struggling with my grief over Marcel I was a bit lost for a while. All the hopes and plans of publishing a memoir got put on hold, it wasn’t […]

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4 Years Ago: Overdose, Shame and the Blame Game

August 22, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

The photo’s above are all taken during my time with Marcel, I’m not sure if our life was the life that people expect heroin addicts to have. I suppose the […]

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4 Years Ago: Why Did You Die? Guilt, Regret and Sadness.

August 21, 2020by poppyshell81 1 Comment

I’m not sure what I’m doing with this blog post, I want to just avoid the horrible thoughts that this date brings, I want to pretend I don’t feel a […]

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4 Years Ago: Out of Touch, Rogue Cow and Runes

August 7, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” Nietzsche 1883 It feels longer than four years […]

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5 Years Ago: Methadone Me, Recovery and Pastures New

August 5, 2020by poppyshell81 1 Comment

” All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we […]

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6 Years Ago: People in Pain and Dangerous Hope.

August 4, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

“Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.” Thomas De Quincey 1845 […]

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