Blogging Is Much More Than I Had Originally Thought
Sometimes it takes someone else to acknowledge things before I do so myself. Like blogging for example. I’ve never sat back and thought about what blogging means to me. Or what it means to have a blog. There are a handful of bloggers that began punching a keyboard four years ago alongside me that I remain in the loop with. Each of their blogs is more successful than my own. I say that with a sense of pride and inspiration. While communicating with Ashley from Mental Health@Home, I realized the integral role blogging plays in my recovery. So I went ahead and made a nifty list!
Blogging for me means this:
1. I have a support system.
2. I have a safe space to share my vulnerabilities.
3. Others are on a similar life journey and are compassionate of mine.
4. I am not alone.
5. Others do care.
Yes, a simple itemized list of 5 sums up the feels I get from having a blog. Anyone who is human can attest these are critical to have and not to recovery alone; in life.
This blog is witness to transformation.
This blog is a testimony of life.
My life.
This blog reminds me to breathe.
This blog mirrors tears, hopes, dreams, and fears.
This blog embraces mistakes.
It encourages.
This blog is a display of endurance and strength.
This blog is the result of what I receive as a blogger on WordPress.
Isn’t that a beautiful thing?
Just by being yourself, you have a deep impact on someone else’s life.
Revenge of Eve 
I agree. Our WordPress community has been wonderfully supportive and uplifting for me. I hope it is for you too.
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It is.
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I think that’s an awesome list! 💕
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Thank you 😁
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It’s a beautiful thing…
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❤️
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I love blogging, my blog means the world to me! For most of the same reasons you mentioned! Xoxo
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Life
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I’m lucky enough to have made a friend in yourself through blogging and enjoy the fact that we’ve been able to understand what each other have been through and given support 👌
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Same here. I appreciate learning from your journey.
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Hopefully we will meet one day along our respective journeys
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Most definitely!
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Agreed! Plus, I remember what I thought about blogging and writing when I first started; how self-conscious and unsure I was. Compared to now, like you said, the network alone has been amazing.
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Oh yeah, those uncomfortable feels. The community helped diminish those.
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