Cristina Paynes

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  • December 27, 2025

    Dear Me…

    You are entering a new version of you and you feel scared. New job, new perspective, you are learning to unlearn in so many ways, and that is terrifying. The old you, the one you are still shedding, is worried you may fail, she thinks you don’t have the fire you so loudly proclaim. It’s…

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    life, love, mental-health, personal-development, Writing
  • April 25, 2024

    Listen

    I’ve been ignoring my inner voice for a while. The thing about your inner voice is that if you don’t listen to it or interact with it, it kinda goes away. I suppose you still hear yourself inside your head, but it’s talking to you as you think. It’s like you talk to yourself but…

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  • February 15, 2023

    Dear Diary …

    I used to dream about the day I could move out of my parent’s house and then one day, I woke up and found out I was pregnant. That day marked the rest of my life. My future was now unwritten, unplanned, to some extent feared and unwanted. I didn’t know how I was going…

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  • February 14, 2023

    Happy St. Valentine’s Day!

    There are a lot of people out there celebrating St. Valentine’s Day today sending all the flowers and chocolate they can find to their loved ones. But did you know that “Young women would line up for the men to hit them,” because “they believed this would make them fertile”? I found an article by…

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  • November 14, 2022

    Listening to Old Voice Recordings

    I am listening to a voice recording from April 7th, 2018. It’s Chas and I walking and talking about a short film idea. We go back and forth about what should be and what would happen in the storyline. I also present the idea of making this routine into a podcast. Where we go out…

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  • November 10, 2022

    Feeling Fat Today

    Woke up and made sure to drink a tall glass of water, by tall I mean a 32oz bottle of water. I must confess, when I was in high school, I had a ritual. It started right after freshman year ended. I wanted to lose weight and I didn’t know of a healthy way to…

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