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Jackie Strouzas
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“Illness, like so many forms of adversity l, brings out the worst in us while requiring the most of us, and it works this exorcism of sorts through the very features we find so offensive in the sick: the bad breath, runny noses, and oozing sores, the cough, spitting, crying and vomiting.”
— Jun 12, 2025 04:36PM
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Jackie Strouzas
is on page 66 of 176
“Her illness was the cure, nit the affliction. Indeed, from a buffets perspective, it was an opportunity for enlightenment.”
— Jun 11, 2025 11:07AM
Jackie Strouzas
is on page 57 of 176
“Having to drop the struggle to “make something of myself and find a place in the world” through “acts of will and effort” and learn to “surrender and accept what I had become” instead.
— Jun 11, 2025 09:17AM
Jackie Strouzas
is on page 41 of 176
“Wholeness moralism” - “tendency to accept people only when they get better, heal or want to heal.”
— Jun 09, 2025 12:02PM
Jackie Strouzas
is on page 33 of 176
“As a result, the ongoing exhaustion of my illness has slowly undermined my “good girl” persona and perfectionist habits I had learned as a child to steer my way through land mines of adult psyches, and it has cultivated in me a self-attentiveness I now need in order to survive.”
— Jun 07, 2025 04:42PM
Jackie Strouzas
is on page 14 of 176
“In illness there is the fact that we cannot hide in our bodies or from our bodies, and also the burning desire to do so.”
— Jun 07, 2025 03:57PM
