Re-Feminist History (aka Bitchstory)

One of the strange and entertaining things, my brain is fond of doing is personifying the planets and their activities. I enjoy making them into characters. It just helps my brain digest things better when a planet in a sign has a personality and a wardrobe.  So I was getting ready to write this article about Chiron moving into Taurus. Despite the fact that I use voice text every single day and I’ve been writing astrology and horoscopes for many years now,  voice text still cannot figure out what the fuck a “Chiron” is. So it misspelled it as “ Kyron ”. Instantly my brain ran with this and had an absolute blast figuring out who Chiron with a K is.  Chiron = ancient wounded healer, wise centaur, keeper of sacred wounds. Kyron = guy in a quarter-zip carrying a Stanley cup and explaining gut health. ****** - Maybe he’s the regional manager of a crystal shop. People just call him “K”:  “K…are we out of purple fluorite?” - Or he’s the wellness coach who teaches ...

  By Kelly McClain  Memoir (title TBD) Chapter 6 (partial) - Draft (All rights rese rved, intellectually property and all that jazz) I was talking to a friend recently about what happened after I quit my job in 2020 (when I was 47). From the outside, it probably looked like I finally escaped a toxic situation and should have started feeling better. Instead, my body completely fell apart. What I understand now is that sometimes when you’ve been surviving for years, the collapse doesn’t happen while you’re in danger. It happens when you finally feel safe enough to stop running. Let’s talk about what a “mask” is in the context of body and brain issues…Masking is the unconscious habit of hiding traits, needs, sensitivities, or struggles in order to appear “normal,” capable, or unaffected. It’s a survival skill that can work for years—until it doesn’t. A mask is what happens when survival becomes a full-time job. You learn to perform competence, calmness, and resilience even...