About Ryan Patrick Duggan
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As you heal, we heal. As you transmute energy and emotion with the medicine of your words, we are as children side by side, wiping each other's tears, bathing in tenderness. We all belong to each other.
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In order to begin to accept the havoc that imposter syndrome was wreaking upon my life, I had to learn to grapple with it, to understand it, to accept my role in the entire mess. I no longer wanted to get stuck in cycles of shame that were punctuated by so many senseless moments of fear and self-destruction. But in order to begin that work, I had to be willing to go toe-to-toe with the bully in my...
A Few Thoughts On Imposter Syndrome..
Nov 03, 2023
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The time of darkness was upon us, Long before most of us even recognized What it was Or knew what to call it, my son. Neighbors became strangers We were defined by fear, by borders, By distance A prisoner of the stories we told ourselves Until we had no chance but to believe them. Some held on for love The currency of endurance Longing hearts rejecting apathy, Refusing to surrender to numbness. Bu...
How We Begin Again
Oct 13, 2023
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She felt the eggshells crush underneath her feet as she walked. She tried so hard to dance around them, but the heels she was wearing made it almost impossible. She would feel the delicateness of each and every shell smash like fiberglass underneath the soles of her feet as she attempted, with all the strength she had, to walk near him. It hurt to say out loud, even to admit it to herself, but she...
The Eggshell Suite (Something She Would Never Have..)
Oct 03, 2023
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