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Series 1

A five-part series exploring relationships and the ways we abandon ourselves to keep things "working."

Moments I Chose Myself

Series 1

3 September 2025

Moments I Chose Myself

Chapter 5: From small choices at sunrise to life-changing decisions, here’s how I stepped into alignment, self-trust and the life I was meant to live.

What It Costs Us to Stay

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27 August 2025

What It Costs Us to Stay

Chapter 4: We don’t always notice the slow erosion—of self, of spirit, of truth—when we stay somewhere we’ve long outgrown. This piece explores the quiet, painful cost of staying too long.

We Seek The Redo

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20 August 2025

We Seek The Redo

Chapter 3: We don’t cling to what feels good — we cling to what feels familiar. A reflection on unconscious reenactment in love and how the past often repeats until we heal.

You Are Not Broken

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13 August 2025

You Are Not Broken

Chapter 2: A poem for the woman whose heart is closed, whose body no longer reaches for touch. A quiet reminder that numbness is not failure — it’s wisdom. And beneath it all, you are still whole.

The Things We Swallow in Love

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6 August 2025

The Things We Swallow in Love

Chapter 1: A tender reflection for the women who’ve learned to dim their longings to stay safe and what it slowly costs us.

When Love Isn’t the Point, but the Portal

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31 July 2025

When Love Isn’t the Point, but the Portal

Season 1 Intro: A new series on the quiet reckoning with old wounds, patterns of self-abandonment and the mirrors that show us where we still struggle to choose ourselves.

Rhian Budd

Journal of Awakening, Motherhood & Identity

Writer, creator & founder based in the Waikato, New Zealand — creating a space for slow healing, honest becoming and returning to who you really are.

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