Mental Health
Stay until the wave goes out
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There’s a minute when the feeling is the whole world. Grief. Panic. Rage. A drop so sudden you cannot see the boat on the horizon. That minute is a liar about time.
Stay. Not forever. Through this wave. Feet. Breath. A hand on something solid — a rock, a table, your own other hand.
The pool in the rock holds the sky and then lets it change. You can hold a feeling without becoming it. That’s a kind of strength nobody claps for, and it’s real.
If the wave is a wish to be gone, stay by calling someone. Help first. The article second. We mean that.
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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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