Joyful Ruins

Discovering joy in the hard places

Nurture Versus Nature

It’s truly been

my world

that’s made me sick

I’ve always been told

I was the problem

My thinking wrong

my feelings too much

But now that I’ve found safety

and I am more myself

than I have ever been

I know

that it wasn’t me that was wrong

but the world I lived in

The people who harmed me

The religion that taught me

The lack of love that starved me

And now that I know it wasn’t me

I can stop rearranging myself

cutting parts off of me

and let go of you all instead

Say goodbye

and never look back

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Jessica P. Mills

I see the world through stories and insights. I have always been a sensitive soul, especially towards nature, people, art, and faith. I spend a lot of time reflecting and finding treasures wherever I can. The two values I live by are beauty and celebration. I hope my blog communicates those two things, seeing beauty where beauty is not often seen and celebrating every aspect of life, the hard and the easy.

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An obsessive journaler who loves meeting others along their journey and giving them a hand to hold through pieces of writing. I write about the heartbreaks of life and the joys, the ups and downs, and I often learn my greatest lessons and miracles from nature.

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