Chasing Sunsets

Mental Health

Healing on the living room floor

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Golden sunlight filtering through trees along a forest path

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Healing can start on the living room floor. You don’t need a perfect morning, a journal with a ribbon, or a version of you who already drinks enough water.

You do not have to piece yourself back together with tidy, perfect seams. The visible mend is still a mend.

If all you can do is lie down and watch the light move across the wall, that’s a beginning. If you can do more later, good. If you cannot, you’re still allowed here.

When the floor isn’t enough — when you need a trained voice, a crisis line, a plan — Help is in the nav on purpose. We’ll never pretend a sunset replaces that.

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The Chasing Sunsets editor

I write Chasing Sunsets from Edmonton, Alberta. Every line here started as something I said to someone having a bad day — usually on our Facebook page, usually at night.

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