Warrior Goddess Writes

TW ⚠️ suicide

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So I wrote a thing that I felt like sharing for the first time in quite awhile. I always find it sort of ironic that September is both Suicide Prevention Month and Pain Awareness Month, but that we rarely talk about suicide prevention in the context of chronic pain. And I shared my thoughts on Twitter about Suicide Prevention Month and how a lot of the campaigns for it don’t resonate with me as a chronically ill person. The tweets got a much larger response than I was expecting, so I took some time to write a full-length article elaborating on my initial tweets (which are included in the article). Basically I just expressed that I don’t feel seen or heard by the insistence that “it gets better.” In this article, I share the ways that I cope with my own feelings of depression, and the things that help me continue choosing life even when I know it might not get better. Please feel free to share if you feel this may be helpful to someone else!

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Due to price increases, I will have to temporarily shut down the Warrior Goddess Musings website. This will go into effect by mid-February.

But I am not stopping writing or blogging, nor will I stop posting here! I will continue to update you all about my progress in finding a new home for all my writing. So fear not!

I may also be planning to rebrand, and I’ve already changed my username on here in case you didn’t notice! So there’s lots in store for the future!

Thank you for always supporting me!

If you’d like to support my program, Chronic Readers Club, and its mission to help provide books to young chronically ill people, pledge to be our patron on Patreon! If you sign up anytime from now through January 5th, you’ll receive a FREE “chronic reader” pin on top of all the benefits we already offer! Donations start as low as $1 per month! We are grateful for any help! 

The final way you can help Chronic Readers Club is by spreading the word about the program and the good it does! 

Even if you aren’t able to donate, please feel free to share any and all posts from this fundraising venture! 

I am so incredibly appreciative of every kind of support this program receives, not just monetary support! 

And I want to thank everyone who has already liked and shared these posts! Your kindness has not gone unnoticed! ❤️

I know many that send out care packages can’t possibly get a package to every applicant, which I totally understand! 

But for as long as I am able, I want every chronic reader who applies to get a package, even though it sometimes takes awhile! 

I want everyone who is chronically ill to feel special and seen. Often, life as a chronically ill person can be sad, or lonely, or weird, or just downright boring! And I want to do as much as I possibly can to help fix that. 

Another way you can help Chronic Readers Club is by donating small items to send along with the books! 

In each Chronic Readers Club package, the recipient finds not only a book from their personal wishlist, but also a multitude of other little gifts hand-selected just for them! 

Chronic Readers Club can accept items such as notebooks, pens, pencils, erasers, sticky notes, socks (we ALWAYS need cute comfy socks!), stickers, bookmarks, lip balm, and the like! If you have any questions about what is needed, just send me a quick email! And they don’t have to be expensive items -- I always have way too much fun shopping for little things at my local dollar store!

The top 5 most requested books since the program began:

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

An awesome way to help Chronic Readers Club with purchasing the books for each package is to send us a gift card to a bookstore! 

Each Chronic Readers Club package features a book hand-picked for the chronic reader receiving it! How is this accomplished, you ask?! Well, each applicant has the opportunity to provide a list of books they would love to receive when they’re applying! Then I choose a book from that list, purchase it, and pack it up with all the other items for that recipient! 

What exactly goes into a Chronic Readers Club package?! Pictured here are some examples! 

Did you know that Chronic Readers Club has an Amazon wishlist?! It’s a list of small items that we try to include in each package! The list contains things like notebooks, socks, lip balm, stickers, and more! 

If you’d like to choose exactly what you are gifting to the program, this is the way to do that! Chronic Readers Club is so grateful for donations of any sort, and a purchase of any item from this list would be oh so helpful!