So, You Want a New Job
>>Listen to Freedom for Humans here! You sit with your dad in the upstairs TV room where you spend much of your time watching movies and...
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Kirsten Johansen
- Dec 2, 2022
- 13 min
Standing Close to the Flame
You arrive in Malta exhausted. You have made this trip several times, but this time you find it particularly difficult to sit on the...
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Kirsten Johansen
- Oct 12, 2022
- 12 min
The Octopus's Garden
What are you going to do…what are you going to do…what are you going to do…Your mind races and your body vibrates with anxiety. Anxiety,...
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Kirsten Johansen
- Sep 17, 2022
- 9 min
Farrah Fawcett Saved Your Life-Part Three
It is the spring of 2011. At the completion of your treatment for stage 3B anal cancer, your pain, burns, and opiate addiction are at...
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Kirsten Johansen
- Sep 7, 2022
- 12 min
Farrah Fawcett Saved Your Life-Part Two
It is January of 2011. Six years earlier, you received a call from your mom. She tells you she has breast cancer. You both cry. It is...
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Kirsten Johansen
- Sep 2, 2022
- 8 min
Farrah Fawcett Saved Your Life-Part One
You are enchanted with Farrah Fawcett. You watch Charlie’s Angels, sitting on the floor close to the TV. You appreciate the plucky,...
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Kirsten Johansen
- Aug 9, 2022
- 18 min
Your Food
*Contains a candid discussion of disordered eating. Once you begin binging on food around the age of ten, using it as a drug to numb your...
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Kirsten Johansen
- Jun 18, 2022
- 5 min
Your Body
Your body is your first, best and last partner in this life. No one knows you better than your body. It is your closest friend, ally,...
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Kirsten Johansen
- Jun 8, 2022
- 4 min
You are at the center of your life
You are at the center of your life. This sounds elemental. A given. It isn’t. You begin this way, but human existence quickly intervenes...
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