Content warning: named drug use, attempted suicide, harm reduction, Mental Health, strong personal opinions on aforementioned topics.

To go along with the content warning above, I have a personal disclaimer. With the previous chapters, I've given you the breakdown first and then in a separate email I provide the chapter. Today we're going to do things a little bit different. I'm just going to send it all together. I'll give you the chapter first and then I'll give you the breakdown immediately following.

People say that we are not allowed to discuss the topics I am going to bring up. "It is too heavy." "It is not something that we should write about." "These are the things that everyone wants to just forget." Is what I've been told.

People ask me if I am crazy when I say that I want to write about these things. My answer to them is simple. Yes, queen. I am. That is 90% of the point of the work that I am doing. Processing the crazy.

Personally, I find it to be utterly insane that we don't discuss these things. Keeping things inside and pretending that we're all okay is not okay.

I'm in this life to grow and expand. For me, holding things inside is stifling to my own personal growth. It's the only way that I can survive is to let it out.

What’s Next?

For Jethran, the wandering continues until he stumbles upon a village of people dedicated to removing their flaws. These people focus on fixing anything that they see as an inconvenience or as an offense in their conformist society. They offer Jethran help to remove his flaws, a choice that will ultimately change his life forever.

For us, we will explore the concept of Curative Violence. We are often taught that fixing ourselves is the ultimate goal, but on Wednesday, we examine the cost of slicing away our history just to fit in.

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A Note from Liliana

Ironically, in a post about coloring with kittens, you may have heard an unavoidable guest in the background audio. This would be my cat, Liliana La Gata. She has been in ultimate protest mode today, as she usually is on any day that I pay too much attention to my phone and not enough to her. So she can be heard throughout the recording. I promise that wasn’t planned, but no matter how many times I tried to re-record it, she made her way in. It was just her way of being meta.

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