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Unblocked21

Julie Borden
4 min readAug 31, 2021

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Okay…. this feels really weird. But Jolie said to do it, so I’m gonna do it. Here it is:

Medium webinar

“So focused on saying things the right way that I couldn’t say anything at all.”

Authenticity is key. “If you have something to say, someone needs to hear it.”

Ideas for unblocking:

“Take last sentence and make it the first and tell how you got there.”

“Unblocked21” = tag

“Clean”

What is clean? It is fresh. It is uncluttered. It is open. What is not clean? A brain foggy day. Confusion. Lack of clarity. A sometimes excruciatingly painful lack of clarity. It is bad days. Clean is good days.

Sonogram picture:

Miracle. Twenty-something years ago I would have seen this picture and felt a spark — of love, of hope, of fear. Could I really do that? Make a baby? Grow a human? Now — today — he is two weeks away from being 19 years old, and he STILL amazes me. Did I do that? I still get amazed when I look at my positive pregnancy test, or his first ultrasound picture. I made a sac!

My Journey Here Today:

I am here because I came from where I came from. I am here because once upon a time I was in fifth grade. I was on the playground at Faith Baptist. I…

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Julie Borden
Julie Borden

Written by Julie Borden

Social worker, therapist, reader, writer, head-in-the-clouds dreamer, awed by most everything. (She/her) Reach me at JulieBordenLCSW@gmail.com.

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