by Lulu The Green Fairy | Feb 16, 2020 | Blog
Sometimes my skin doesnโt quite fit. I wriggle inside of it, like thereโs some kind of alien being trying to get out. I look in a mirror and wonder who I am. I can be at home yet still feel lost; feel emptiness even with a full life. The safe zones that anchor me can...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Feb 5, 2020 | Blog, Mental Health
Recently, whilst walking through town, I became temporarily dissociated. My physical presence felt detached from my surroundings and my senses shut down to the point of numbness. Nothing beyond my self felt real, and even the self felt curiously alien. WebMD describes...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Oct 26, 2019 | Poetry
Transient shadows cast, A silent scream exhales from my lips, Light cuts sharply on my shaded face, From the streetlights. I wrangle in the darkness, Walking the streets, Searching for myself, Looking ahead, Stumbling, The gutter calls, I wonโt fall, The shadows hold...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Aug 21, 2019 | Mental Health
Have you ever noticed the light as it falls across a garden or parkland? I mean really noticed, not just seen it, but felt it as every shadow taints the foliage, like an angelโs breath has whispered over the landscape, changing the tones; noticed how every sparkle of...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Jul 29, 2019 | Mental Health
There are days when we can all feel disengaged from material reality. The mind can drift apart from the physical world and take us out into an unknown zone of dissociation. Unplanned feelings like these can just happen sporadically and we are left feeling empty and...