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There’s an ancestral scream that fought for life millions of years ago that still howls in our blood today. That drive to see how far one can push themselves; to see what happens when all the chips are at their lowest; when it’s just me, myself, and I facing our own mortality alone… what kind of person are we?

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This past month, I listened to my own advice and gave myself permission to take time off.

And it was exactly what we needed.

Funny how that works.

Nothing to see here, just a Motley Crew re-learning lessons we already knew...

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My thoughts can think for themselves.

Keep Your Thoughts To Yourself

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With a disorder that demands disconnect, reconnection is part of the recovery journey.

Healing is Parallel

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when skin is burning betrayal become canvas, become wax, become dust

stepping back, falling inside, floating away dissolving between here and there

into the windows, behind the walls drawing curtains, erasing doors

distant ghosts inhabit a lifeless spine shifting sandcastle cornerstones

numbed minds pilot a robot body wires for veins, bones of rebar and rock

wooden heartbeats, paintbrush smiles pulsing within unfeeling ceramic faces

am i alive? am i here? am i real?

Reinhabitation

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I wasn’t collecting nonsense, I was collecting my own history.

Packrat

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Life was too dark for too long; we are allowed to live in the light. We've most certainly earned it.

Inside Jokes

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"The First Rule of..."

This one's so good, it's almost a shame to keep it locked behind special access.

To thank our subscribers, we publish a once-a-month essay just for them, and this month, we decided to have a little fun, and we wanted to give it a shout out over here.

TWM is proud to present our "Multiples in the Media" series!

Today, in our special subscribers-only essay, we're reviewing Fight Club, the 1999 film directed by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter; the original novel was written by Chuck Palahniuk in 1996.

Fight Club is one of those movies I saw before I knew about DID; one that left me with some very awkwardly relatable feelings that never went away. Feelings that turned even more awkward when encountering cries of, “Not like Tyler Durden!” Because… well, why not? There’s a lot relatable about the relationships between Tyler and…

Have you seen Fight Club? Do you have, or know someone with, DID? Are you Jack's differing opinion?

Click the link to read TWM's "The First Rule of..." now!

Saturday's essays trend longer than average — and at 3000 words, this one's a doozy! We're quite proud of it, and we hope you enjoy what we have to share.

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I'm T.W., we're the Motley, and we are thriving while multiple.

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I am bark, root, branch, and leaf, the latest ring around the tree.

Pixels and Rings

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Healing allows us to make our own choices, free from coercion, conditioning, and control.

Healing is Counterintuitive

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I felt like an outsider, like I’d missed a memo; everybody else knew how to grow up, and I didn’t.

Missed The Memo

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Nobody’s reading my mind, nobody can hear my thoughts, and the only one able to exist within my mind is Me.

Keep your Thoughts To Yourself

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Happy is not the goblet in my grasp, it’s the bubbles in my drink.

Happy

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We are not the disorder; we are the person.

I Am Not A Symptom

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Our goal is to have a life worth living, a life to recover in, a life to recover with.

With The Tides

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Everybody deserves healing, whatever it looks like to them. This is not the end --- this is just the beginning.

Therapy Goals

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We survived the events, we will survive the remembering, and we will survive the recovering.

"And the thunder rolls..."