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CH Chrysa Stergiou · Catharsis Chronicles

Newsletter #29

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Sep 01, 2026 · 4 min read · 1,216 claps paywalled #catharsis-chronicles #newsletter #top-story

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JO John E Marks · Catharsis Chronicles

The courage of eagles

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not. Johnny Keats, Letter, November 22, 1817.

Aug 25, 2026 · 1 min read · 100 claps paywalled #john-keats #truth-and-beauty #catharsis-chronicles

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CH Chrysa Stergiou · Catharsis Chronicles

Newsletter 28

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Aug 01, 2026 · 5 min read · 1,422 claps paywalled #newsletter #catharsis-chronicles #top-story

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JO John E Marks · Catharsis Chronicles

THE SOLITARY ROSE OF YOUR BREATH

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.” — William Blake

Jul 26, 2026 · 1 min read · 50 claps paywalled #infant-mortality #breath #william-blake

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AM Amoré Angel · Catharsis Chronicles

The Fear of Vulnerability

—Society’s catch-22

Jul 25, 2026 · 4 min read · 102 claps paywalled #life #psychology #mental-health

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LA Laura Constantinescu · Catharsis Chronicles

A Game of Lost and Found

Time burial

Jul 25, 2026 · 1 min read · 96 claps paywalled #poetry #time #burial

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SU Susan R Goldberg · Catharsis Chronicles

This is a companion piece to “Storybook,” looking at my house in its historical context and my…

If You’re Interested in History …

Jul 25, 2026 · 7 min read · 50 claps #catharsis-chronicles #competition #my-house

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DA Dark Parker™ · Catharsis Chronicles

HAKUNA MATATA

by Dark Parker

Jul 24, 2026 · 11 min read · 50 claps #loss #poetry #friendship

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YA Yana Bostongirl · Catharsis Chronicles

Why You Must Value Yourself Before Anyone Else

The strongest chains are the ones you can’t see

Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read · 2,260 claps paywalled #relationships #psychology #women

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NO No blabs >< Constance · Catharsis Chronicles

Smiling on Cue

When the performance becomes too perfect to feel alive.

Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read · 100 claps paywalled #performance #culture #identity

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PA Paras Ali · Catharsis Chronicles

Storylessness

The missing music of happenings

Jul 22, 2026 · 1 min read · 1,396 claps paywalled #catharsis-chronicles #poetry #loneliness

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GR Greg Sullivan · Catharsis Chronicles

Where Has All the Listening Gone?

Pondering the reasons we struggle to be open to new ideas

Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read · 181 claps paywalled #empathy #listening #understanding

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DI Diane Reed · Catharsis Chronicles

Piano Lessons

Why I couldn’t stay with this love of mine

Jul 22, 2026 · 5 min read · 357 claps paywalled #life-lessons #writing #piano

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SU Sue Banerji · Catharsis Chronicles

Towards the Path Of Light

Wanting peace is the only way we can have peace

Jul 22, 2026 · 1 min read · 851 claps paywalled #catharsis-chronicles #peace #poetry

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JO John E Marks · Catharsis Chronicles

The Unsolved

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

Jul 21, 2026 · 1 min read · 60 claps paywalled #ghosts #heart-food #links

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AM Amoré Angel · Catharsis Chronicles

When I’m Not Enough for Them

—Knowing my worth and the spiritual struggle with shame

Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps paywalled #psychology #self-worth #parenting

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MI Mike Ketch🖌 · Catharsis Chronicles

I Saw Her Dread Figure Framed | Felt Her Astrological Heat Stalking Me

Felt the last stroke of her she-sculptor’s blade peel back this purple caul

Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read · 89 claps paywalled #catharsis-chronicles #poetry #astrology

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PE Pen & Page · Catharsis Chronicles

The Forgotten Journey of Pocket Coins

Every scratched coin in your pocket has already lived a life you'll never fully know.

Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read · 336 claps paywalled #culture #travel #life-lessons

SR Sreya Satheesh · Catharsis Chronicles

Two Sunflowers 🌻

A Yellow Day, two paper flowers, and a thought about companionship.

Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read · 98 claps paywalled #the-two-sunflower-theory #yellowdays #nephew

SA Sarah Scorze · Catharsis Chronicles

When The Land Remembers

About the place I grew up, seen through the eyes of the land

Jul 15, 2026 · 5 min read · 115 claps paywalled #house #catharsis-chronicles #home

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AN Annelise Lords · Catharsis Chronicles

Is Menopause A Secret?

My mother and other women were a part of that secret, and it stayed that way for centuries.

Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read · 291 claps paywalled #catharsis-chronicles #life #mental-health

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SU Susan R Goldberg · Catharsis Chronicles

What Is A Ghost?

We talk about them all the time. Can we really know them?

Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read · 90 claps #catharsis-chronicles #ghosts #ghosting

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VI Victoria Ponte · Catharsis Chronicles

The Cabin That Remembered Me

Long after I stopped arriving every other Friday, I’d like to believe the lake house was still listening for the sound of my cane.

Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read · 289 claps paywalled #competition #memories #disability

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BE Bella Smith ⭐ · Catharsis Chronicles

Why You Need to Stop Rereading The Worst Chapters of Your Life

Which door should never be opened again?

Jul 15, 2026 · 5 min read · 395 claps paywalled #catharsis-chronicles #competition #personal-growth

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AR A. R. Parihar · Catharsis Chronicles

About Trees

Let’s go into the woods

Jul 14, 2026 · 1 min read · 364 claps paywalled #nature #poetry #spirituality

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AM Amoré Angel · Catharsis Chronicles

Everyone Wants to Go to Heaven but No One Wants to Die

—The concept of death and loss and the fear thereof

Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read · 31 claps paywalled #consciousness #spiritual-awakening #life

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WO Words By Egypt 𓇢𓆸 · Catharsis Chronicles

Why I Refuse To Write About My Children And Motherhood Journey

I’m more than 'just' a mother

Jul 14, 2026 · 5 min read · 33 claps #motherhood #truth #writers-life

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BR Brenda Arledge · Catharsis Chronicles

Do You Know the Feeling?

When Loneliness Finds You 💔

Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read · 218 claps paywalled #catharsis-chronicles #personal-essay #poetry

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DI Diane Reed · Catharsis Chronicles

Learning a New Tune Inside San Quentin in 1966

And the thrill, 40 years later, of meeting Bill Henderson who sang one of those tunes

Jul 14, 2026 · 4 min read · 100 claps paywalled #catharsis-chronicles #jazz #prison

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JN J. Nina · Catharsis Chronicles

Shepherd’s Puppet

LOOKING IN FROM A DIFFERENT VIEW

Jul 14, 2026 · 1 min read · 61 claps paywalled #writing #life #mental-health

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SA S.A. Routh · Catharsis Chronicles

Finding a Third Place

Wayne Survived Katrina. He and I Used to Drink Coffee Together on Wednesdays.

Jul 13, 2026 · 6 min read · 109 claps paywalled #life #family #belonging

TE Terry McLeod · Catharsis Chronicles

She Held My Gaze

A conversation bigger than words.

Jul 13, 2026 · 4 min read · 134 claps paywalled #listening #understanding #better-humans

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AM Amoré Angel · Catharsis Chronicles

Burning the Midnight Oil

—Shadows of the past, I’m hoping this phase won’t last

Jul 13, 2026 · 3 min read · 54 claps paywalled #catharsis-chronicles #psychology #life

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LE Lela Hannah · Catharsis Chronicles

Atheist’s Prayer

A poem

Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read · 100 claps paywalled #poem #poetry #catharsis-chronicles

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PA Paras Ali · Catharsis Chronicles

When the Moon Rises, the Poet Sets

Inside the home owned by night.

Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read · 1,040 claps paywalled #competition #poetry #home

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GO Golam Rob · Catharsis Chronicles

Floating Grave: An Untold Elegy of The Devastating 1988 Flood

A Childhood Memory of The 1988 Bangladesh Flood And a Grandfather’s Heartbreaking Final Journey.

Jul 11, 2026 · 4 min read · 130 claps paywalled #storytelling #bangladesh #climate-change

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MI Michael A. Kroll · Catharsis Chronicles

To Be Nine Again

My animal paradise

Jul 10, 2026 · 7 min read · 153 claps paywalled #innocence #catharsis-chronicles #mountains

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PR Priyanka Sinha · Catharsis Chronicles

What’s normal?

& what’s not

Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read · 450 claps #life-lessons #catharsis-chronicles #society

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AN Anthony M.U · Catharsis Chronicles

The Prank That Destroyed Her Marriage

Why you should never joke about certain things

Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read · 20 claps paywalled #relationships #psychology #communication

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AM Amoré Angel · Catharsis Chronicles

God is a Consequencelist

—What’s good for the goose is good for the gander

Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read · 50 claps paywalled #spiritual-awakening #spiritual-growth #spirituality

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AP AP · Catharsis Chronicles

Finding Beauty in a Harsh World

A thoughtful reflection on kindness, beauty, and hope, and how small moments of goodness quietly shape the way we see life

Jul 09, 2026 · 3 min read · 136 claps paywalled #life #mental-health #psychology

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NI Nikki’s Unfiltered · Catharsis Chronicles

Nikki’s Unfiltered — The Ugliest Baby in the Nursery

When the biggest disappointment of my childhood became one of my favorite memories.

Jul 09, 2026 · 4 min read · 350 claps #catharsis-chronicles #family #siblings

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JO John E Marks · Catharsis Chronicles

People of a lesser vintage

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to” ― Dorothy Parker.

Jul 09, 2026 · 1 min read · 50 claps paywalled #hypocrisy #exploitation #catharsis-chronicles

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NI Nitya Sharma · Catharsis Chronicles

These Empty Spaces by the Mountain

A poetry piece I’ve been trying to write, for pahad.

Jul 09, 2026 · 1 min read · 160 claps paywalled #mountains #escape #burnout

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JE Jenine Bsharah Baines · Catharsis Chronicles

Beer and Chocolates

Over 50 years later, does my grandparents’ apartment remember me?

Jul 09, 2026 · 2 min read · 550 claps paywalled #catharsis-chronicles #competition #poetry-on-medium

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MA Mariana Busarova · Catharsis Chronicles

Deliberately Imperfect

Life has never learned to play it perfectly

Jul 08, 2026 · 1 min read · 37 claps paywalled #poetry #catharsis-chronicles #pain

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AM Amoré Angel · Catharsis Chronicles

Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water

detachment versus letting go

Jul 08, 2026 · 1 min read · 25 claps #spirituality #spiritual-healing #spiritual-growth

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DO Douglas Lim · Catharsis Chronicles

Summer Melodies of the Soul

Music’s revelation

Jul 08, 2026 · 1 min read · 634 claps paywalled #spirituality #music #healing

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TH - The Dribbler - · Catharsis Chronicles

The Fourth of July Phone Call

“Mom… it’s so good to hear your voice.”

Jul 08, 2026 · 6 min read · 106 claps #life-lessons #inspiration #holidays

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CA Catrina Prager · Catharsis Chronicles

If I Be The Keeper of Things

Hoarding & Letting Go. Making room for life in this anxiety-ridden age.

Jul 07, 2026 · 4 min read · 85 claps paywalled #psychology #relationships #world