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Sweet Release by Melanie R.

Sweet Release by Melanie R.

Let every voice of fear be silenced!

Let every anxious feeling be shut down;
and every dark thought that said you are broken, …or forgotten,
be CRUSHED under this Sweet Release!

The past is healed,
and the future is declared righteous!

Omnipotence pour over your spirit and be released!

Sweet release!
Thank You Jesus!

Moving mountains!
I’m free!
Sweet release!

Your future is in God’s Hands;
It’s unshakable!!
Nothing on this earth can come against you.
Miracles happen to this day!

Have faith!
Sweet release!

We ask Mighty God of Heaven to shake your spirit free!

Be free!
In Jesus’ name!

Be released!
Have faith!

Ooh sweet release!
Nothing’s impossible with The One and only True God!

Matthew 17:20
“Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you!”

#ChronicIllness #Dysautonomia #MitochondrialDisease #PrimaryImmunodeficiency #PosturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #RareDisease #ChronicInflammatoryDemyelinatingPolyneuropathy #InsideTheMighty #MightyPoets #MightyTogether #CheckInWithMe #ChronicPain

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Destiny’s Door by Melanie R.

Destiny’s Door by Melanie R.

Ignite your spirit!
The final stretch is so close-

Feel divine fulfillment.
Holy Spirit, Holy Host.

What God has released is unstoppable! Sudden glory!
We are almost there!
Inches away from destiny’s door.
Surrender.
Endure.

Our life Authored by Heaven.
Positioned…aligned.

Refined vessels carry refined messages!
Elevated.
Silence doubt-
Reject fear!!

Activate divine movement!
Closer than you know.
Stay ready!

#ChronicIllness #Dysautonomia #MitochondrialDisease #PrimaryImmunodeficiency #PosturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #RareDisease #ChronicInflammatoryDemyelinatingPolyneuropathy #InsideTheMighty #MightyPoets #MightyTogether #CheckInWithMe #ChronicPain

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Come Forth Lazarus by Melanie R.

Come forth Lazarus!
Come forth Lazarus!

Wrapped up just like Lazarus,
Bound down in decay.
If He would have come sooner,
would life have gone that way?

They thought it was over;
But that’s when Jesus came!
He cried out for Lazarus;
With a shout, He called his name.

And He said,”Come forth, Lazarus”!
“You’ve been dead four days;
Take off your bandages,
your life is gonna change!”

Come forth, Lazarus!
Jesus freed him from the grave!

Come forth Lazarus.
You came back from the dead-
Set free from the pain.

Come forth Lazarus!
Jesus freed you from the grave!

Come forth Lazarus!

Be free from all your bandages!
Your life is gonna change.
In Jesus name!!

Breathe again!

See the “Come Forth Lazarus”
song/video available on my
YouTube:
Melanie’s Melody
along with many other inspiring songs/videos. Enjoy and God Bless your health journey!
We CAN come back to life, and have our own resurrection experience. Maybe in different ways with health issues, but there is Life in Christ!

#ChronicIllness #ChronicInflammatoryDemyelinatingPolyneuropathy #ChronicPain #InsideTheMighty #PrimaryImmunodeficiency #PosturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #MitochondrialDisease #Gastroparesis #MightyPoets #MightyTogether #CheckInWithMe

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When peace feels foreign

There’s a strange fear that creeps in when things are finally calm.
You’d think peace would feel like relief.
But sometimes… it feels like a trap.

I’m not used to calm.
I’m used to chaos disguised as normal.
Raised in noise. Conditioned by unpredictability. Shaped by survival.
I didn’t grow up learning how to rest. I grew up learning how to scan the room.
How to read moods before they shifted.
How to prepare for the storm before the first cloud even formed.
How to be ten steps ahead — just in case.

So now, when everything’s still… my nervous system doesn’t trust it.
When no one’s yelling. When no one’s mad. When no one’s leaving.
I don’t feel safe — I feel suspicious.
Like something’s wrong and I’m just not seeing it yet.

Because in my body, calm doesn’t always feel like safety.
It feels like waiting for the other shoe to drop.

There’s a discomfort in the quiet.
A tension that builds in the silence.
When no one’s texting. When the notifications stop.
When no one’s asking for anything and it’s just me, alone with myself…
It doesn’t always feel good.
It feels foreign.

I’m learning that trauma teaches you to normalize chaos.
It wires your body to expect the worst, even when the worst isn’t coming.
So when something isn’t chaotic — when something is steady — your brain goes into alert mode.
“This can’t be right.”
“This is too good.”
“This won’t last.”
And so, peace becomes uncomfortable. Even scary.

But I don’t want to keep living like this.

I don’t want to keep sabotaging my peace just because it feels unfamiliar.
I don’t want to ruin soft things just because they feel “too quiet.”
I don’t want to keep finding chaos in every calm moment because I’m afraid of being bored, or worse — alone with my thoughts.

So I’ve started wondering…
Can peace be something I practice?

Can I teach my nervous system a new language?
Can I show my body that softness doesn’t always mean danger?
That consistency isn’t always followed by abandonment?
That love doesn’t have to be loud to be real?

Maybe peace isn’t supposed to feel natural at first.
Maybe it’s something you learn to hold.
Like a new instrument. Or a new dialect.
At first, it feels clunky. Awkward. Off-key.
But then — you start to find rhythm.
And eventually… it becomes second nature.

I want peace to be second nature.
I want stillness to feel safe.
I want love that doesn’t rush or push or pull or burn me alive.
I want mornings that don’t start with dread.
I want to wake up and not hear my brain say, “Here we go again.”
I want to breathe without bracing.
I want to enjoy my own company without fearing the silence.
I want to believe that peace can be real, and that I don’t have to earn it through suffering.

So I’m learning.
I’m unlearning.
I’m practicing.

Because maybe peace isn’t a destination.
Maybe it’s a language.
And I’m finally learning how to speak it. #MightyPoets #peace #BipolarDepression #PTSD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Anxiety #Depression

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Silenced

I been in a weird space lately…
the kind of space where silence is loud.
Where my voice
my Black woman voice
starts to feel like a risk

In a world where race is “controversial,”
my body still remembers
It’s been carrying the weight of oppression
long before my mind
could name the pain

See, I’ve got a lot to say
I been trying to speak
but my thoughts are engulfed
in other people’s comfort,
making silence feel safer
than vulnerability

I feel the risk
The cost of being an unemployed Black woman
with the inevitable truth
that I have something to lose
a career before I even step foot
on the professional scene

“Be wise. Be careful.”
As if caution ever kept a Black woman safe
As if shrinking ever saved us

There’s a tug-of-war inside me
my soul pulling toward purpose,
my fear clinging to survival

My support divided:
half saying, “Play it safe.”
the other half saying,
“Burn it all down.”

God…
You said I could walk through fire
and not get scorched
But this
this heat,
this waiting,
this silence
this right here
feels like hell!!
#MightyPoets #Depression #MentalHealth #Anxiety #Journaling #Grief

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Too Much, Not Enough

There are phrases that haunt a body.
“Too much.”
“Not enough.”

I’ve lived in the echo between the two,
stretching and shrinking,
trying to mold myself into something — someone —
worthy of staying.

In early childhood, I learned to monitor myself.
The volume of my laugh. The weight of my questions.
The texture of my emotions.
Joy was too loud. Sadness was too inconvenient.
My silence was praised. My expression, often too sharp to be safe.

By adolescence, the contradictions became doctrine.
Be small, but also remarkable.
Be obedient, but not voiceless.
Be kind, but never vulnerable.
Be a “strong Black woman” — even when you’re quietly bleeding inside.
Be enough — but not so much that you become a burden.

And so I became a master of translation —
constantly decoding the room,
editing myself mid-thought,
swallowing entire oceans of feeling
so I could make others more comfortable.

But no matter how much I concealed,
no matter how much of myself I sacrificed at the altar of acceptability,
someone always found a new way to imply I was too much
or not enough.

Too sensitive. Too bold. Too emotional. Too ambitious.
Too broken.
Too real.

Not smart enough. Not attractive enough. Not agreeable enough.
Not healed enough.
Not worth staying for.

I’ve carried both verdicts like invisible ink on my skin.

And maybe that’s the quiet tragedy of it all —
being expected to hold two opposing truths
without ever being taught how to reconcile them.

It’s lonely, this middle place.
This body that has been both craved and abandoned.
This voice that has been both celebrated and shut down.
This heart that has been both too open and too guarded.

But I’m tired.
I’m so tired of being a shape-shifter.
Of bending toward people who would never twist themselves in return.

So I’m calling it.
I’m not too much.
I’m not not enough.
I’m just… me.

And if that’s unsettling to someone,
it is not my burden to carry anymore.

Let it be unsettling.
Let it be too loud, too tender, too honest, too expansive.

Let me be.

Because this body —
this soul, this voice, this story —
deserves to take up space
without needing to apologize
for its volume or its ache

#MentalHealth #SuicidalIdeation #Depression #Anxiety #Bipolar1 #PTSD #MightyPoets #substack #ADHD #youarenotalone

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Share a poem that's impacted you. Why has it had such a profound effect?

We’ve talked a lot this week about writing our own poetry (we loved reading your words, you brave and creative souls!), but what about reading poetry? That practice can be just as powerful as the creation.

To end our challenge, let’s share the poems that have changed our lives, worldviews, perspectives, and emotions.

#52SmallThings #MightyPoets #Selfcare #MentalHealth #Disability #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RareDisease #Anxiety #Depression
#Autism #Parenting #PTSD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #BipolarDisorder #Fibromyalgia #Lupus #MultipleSclerosis #Migraine #Spoonie

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Write a 5-line poem about how you're feeling today.

It’s poetry writing time. ☺️✒️

For today’s challenge, write a five-line poem about how you’re feeling today. You’re free to write in whatever style or structure feels right to you, there are no rules! If you need some inspiration, here are some examples: you could write a free verse, acrostic, imagery, or lyric poem.

Here is @sparklywartanks poem:

With anticipation, she prepares.
Even as she trembles with anxiety and doubt overflows, she remains brave.
She puts herself out there, becoming the face of vulnerability.
Her story is a sacred part of her.
She chooses to let her humanness be seen.

#52SmallThings #MightyPoets #CheckInWithMe #Selfcare #MentalHealth #Disability #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RareDisease #Anxiety #Depression
#AutismSpectrum #Parenting #PTSD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #BipolarDisorder #Fibromyalgia #Lupus #MultipleSclerosis #Migraine #Spoonie

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