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Finding Help in Unlikely Places
The first step is actively seeking
The first step is the hardest.
The step just before you reach out.
The one right before you ask.
The first step is admitting you need help.
After a somewhat tumultuous childhood, I settled in to early adulthood on pretty smooth path.
Except, well, this THING kept happening.
You know, where when everything is going great and then things just . . . explode.
I couldn’t figure it out.
And, well, I didn’t have to.
Despite what I thought were odd happenings at work and in some relationships, things kept getting better.
Setbacks, sure. But everyone has those.
There was always this background noise — these birds chirping incessantly in my mind.
I did a lot of things to make them stop.
Until one day, I couldn’t.
And I found help in the bathroom of a Walmart.
