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Tag You’re It!

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Daily writing prompt
If humans had taglines, what would yours be?
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Unlike every moment of my life, I take my blog very seriously. Yes, sure, I started shaky. In fact, my first year of blogging was so pathetic that over the years, I’ve deleted all the shame from my blog. 

With spell check and my favorite, Grammarly, there is little reason to have errors in your post. Don’t get me wrong, a few mistakes will sneak in, but at least I try to put my best foot forward. And most of the time, I think my message is clear. 

Now, my real life will tell a different story. I’m a hot mess when making an impressive concrete plan for myself. Early on, I learned that plans can and will change at any moment, leaving you scuffling to pick up the pieces. And let me tell you, I have made a mess along the way of my 46 year journey, but thankful I stumbled into goodness.

This is why my tagline for my blog includes the word stumbled!

If there is one thing I can do, it’s STUMBLE, and I’m okay with that. There is a lot to be discovered if you allow yourself to attempt to do new things that you aren’t too good at. 

I don’t mind failing, and I don’t mind stumbling. When those two things happen, at least I know I tried, and If I’m lucky, I take a lesson away from the experience.

Today’s Question

If humans had taglines, what would yours be?

Mine is simple; I would use my tagline from my blog—The one where she stumbled through her 40s and faced her demons.

Why is this my tagline

  1. I love the sitcom Friends, and they always begin the description of each episode with “the one where” or “the one when.” 
  2. I did almost an entire month using the above phrases for the titles of my posts and will do it again in a few months.
  3. I have literally stumbled my way through my 40s. There are so many factors that change our path, and we have no idea they are going to occur until they do.
  4. While stumbling, I’ve come face to face with the demons that used to keep me up at night.

But now I keep them up. Tag you’re it!

You could have chosen any blog to read, but you chose mine, and I’m honored!

~Belladonna~

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  3. “If humans had taglines mine would be” “Rocky” I say rocky because the last 13 years of my life have been nothing short of rocky. From 2010-2017 I was in and out of Mental Health hospitals from not facing my past childhood trauma and abuse and my demons snuck up on me like a tragic gust of a whirlwind. I had bottled everything up and tried to go on with life after the abuse. I got married in 2000….2001 my husband and I had Lost everything, our house and cars due to having to file bankruptcy. 2003 we almost lost my oldest daughter after she was born because she was a preemie. Doctors said she wouldn’t survive. Her lungs were too weak and weren’t quite developed yet, but by the Grace of God she pulled through. Then later on in 2003 we had gotten evicted due to not being able to keep up with the finances and rent. Not enough income coming in. Then come 2007 my second daughter was born and the house we were living in was falling apart. We lived there for 4 years and the landlord wouldn’t pay to fix things so we had no choice but to up and move again. So we moved into an apartment that was absolutely brutal during the winter time because the heaters we had, were the old fashioned wall heaters and the landlord had control over the heat. He didn’t turn it on until the weather reached negative numbers. We put up with that for about 3 years. Then come 2011 we moved to Oklahoma so my husband could get a better job. Lived with his brother and his girlfriend until we could get a place of our own. That was a nightmare! Then after a few months working at the factory there in Oklahoma his legs started retaining water really bad, due to his diabetes. His legs got to the point he couldn’t walk. So we decided to move back to Kansas into a different house, lived there for 4 years, which that house wasn’t any better. Landlord was horrible!! Then after getting his job back at the prison here in Kansas, he worked there until 2015 until he got fired. It was all because he was joking with an inmate and his boss blew it completely out of control. So after he lost his job, we applied for HUD housing because we didn’t have anywhere else to go and we couldn’t afford anything else. So after about a month after applying we got approved for the HUD housing and ended up once again moving. Then come 2017 I ended up back in the psych hospital and almost lost my family over it. My husband was gonna have my permanently committed and be my power of attorney because of how many times I kept trying to kill myself and hurt myself. He got to the point where my mental health was becoming too much. So after getting out of the psych hospital, April of 2017, I worked my A** off and did everything I possibly could to keep myself out of the hospital and here it is, 6 years later and I haven’t stepped foot inside a psych hospital since that year. Now mind you, there have been so many things that have happened along the way in that 6 years. My husband and I separated twice. Once in 2018 for several months. Then again in 2019 for several months. Our marriage was falling apart because of how he was treating me and our kids….since that time things have still been pretty rocky but we have been trying to make it work….okay I’m gonna track back a little bit. During all the stuff we were facing between 2010 and 2017, I was also in and out of psych hospitals as well. I just didn’t mention it because its waaay to much to type. So I thought I would basically give you the gist of things that my family and I have been through in a nut she’ll from 2000-to now. It’s a lot to explain but hopefully you’ll get the gist of it. “Rocky” is definitely my tagline

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    1. I Have read this three times and I’m amazement!!!! All of this would have broken a lesser woman. I have so much respect for you and I would love to invite you. to take part in one of my episodes for my podcast. I feel like you would have alot to add to a. subject I want to discuss.

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      1. Wow!! Thank you so much sweetheart! That’s a Huge compliment ✨😊 that really means alot. I do Greatly appreciate your kind and encouraging words 💖😊

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      1. Thank you, lady. It’s been that way for years. It started off as just “I am more than breath & bones …” I changed it up a couple years ago. It suits me, I think.

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  7. “Unleashing the Light Within.”
    This succinct declaration represents my fervent belief in the transformative power of genuineness, expressive freedom, and internal luminescence. By sharing this phrase, I aim to inspire others to tap into their innate brilliance, fostering a collective glow that brightens not only ourselves but those around us.

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  8. Tag line: “the reverberations of a hidden well… freed”

    I have over 1400 post here on my blog and many of my earliest may be laced with unabashed mistakes but they also represent where I started, and left unedited as I slipped out of who others made me until I was released into my true self.

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  12. Don’t mind the facial expression, I promise I’m kind, I’m just unmasking.

    Spending the first 25 years of my life with undiagnosed AuDHD has been a rocky time. A lot of misread signals both sent and received. Lots of “you’re so intimidating” when I was younger when in fact I was just spacing out and had a blank expression. I learned by 15 to constantly mask by keeping a slight smile on my face wherever I went. Speaking bluntly also got me labeled as “a b****” or “sassy” when I was just giving the opinion I was asked for. Again, I learned to either mask it or read social cues for how to respond properly. Being 30 and diagnosed has opened up my world and allowed me to slowly stop these behaviors and be authentically myself. I am kind. I am happy. I am excited to be here. And I won’t contort my face or my voice to fit what others think that should look like. ❤️

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  19. Confused element, I think fits me very well coz everything in life seems strange to me or maybe who knows am the one who is strange.

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  26. “She prayed so much that she became a prayer.”

    I have been a great believer in prayers. I have personally been to situations where letting go was the only way so, I would sit before God as a devotee and pray . I speak to God about everything. That’s what my prayers are and my faith is.

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  31. Hi dear, some topics really drag my attention that I terribly want to participate,ok my tag line is STILL CONFUSED,I am 49 and still get confused while taking any decision.I was so sick of this that when my daughter was born I was unintentionally scared of her being a victim of this dragon.but thanks God she is very confident and determined in her decisions.If you had not deleted your first year blogs I wished to read them because I am also trying to blog and here too my confusion restricts my way but it’s something that I am really enjoying and doing without interference of people around me and here i dont have fear of failure.
    Stay blessed

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  34. Love this! Currently stumbling through my 30s. Navigating my way through diabetes and grief. So navigating is my word ❤️

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