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Healthy spell

2025 April 13th1991 March 27th

It’s no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are “heal.”

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, healing, health, medical, quotes, terri guillemets, wellness

Illusionist

2025 April 17th1994 September 24th

The stars, like many other things, are only romantic from a distance.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, perspective, quotes, terri guillemets

Advice

2025 April 17th1994 December 4th

Have your final drink first — and then stop.

Terri Guillemets

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Out of the blue

2025 April 17th1994 March 5th

Birds are beautiful and amazing creatures, until you walk underneath one who had a big lunch.

Terri Guillemets

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Alone

2025 April 15th1992 February 26th

For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, hsp, infj, quotes, social anxiety, solitude, terri guillemets

Discomforts

2025 April 16th1997 December 9th

We are creatures trapped in culture.

Terri Guillemets

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Man vs Nature

2025 April 15th1993 June 20th

Human nature is just about the only nature some people experience.

Terri Guillemets

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Why does it hurt?

2025 June 9th1992 July 19th

My heart aches love for you.

Terri Guillemets

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Becoming

2025 April 17th1994 December 31st

Decorate yourself from the inside out.

Terri Guillemets

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Dry Fog of Oblivion

2025 October 4th2025 March 5th

after seven years of severe perimenopause
i am 95% no longer the person i used to be
and don’t even feel like a woman anymore
just a meltdown mutant shellshocked blob
of stress, desiccation, emotion, exhaustion

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, perimenopause, poems, terri guillemets

Envenom

2025 April 17th1994 December 1st

Lessons from jealousy and anger:  sometimes the poison-keeper gets poisoned.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, note to self, quotes, terri guillemets

Shortages

2025 April 18th1995 July 8th

DEPRESSION
cuts supply lines
to the hopeful
part of the brain

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, brain, emotions, medical, melancholy, quotes, terri guillemets

Sharing secrets

2025 April 17th1994 September 3rd

True love is letting someone else eat from the carton of ice cream you keep hidden in the back of the freezer.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, love, quotes, sweets, terri guillemets
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