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BB Heilman

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The Memoirist

Cat Energy

My aversion to neediness

1d ago

Cat Energy

1d ago

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Being

The So-Called Front Lines

Mission Work, Education, and The Hurt Locker

May 3

The So-Called Front Lines

May 3

Published in

Age of Empathy

Step One: Piercings

Reclaiming my looks for myself

May 2

Step One: Piercings

May 2

Published in

The Memoirist

Finding My Way Home

How creativity brings me back to life

Apr 29

Raindrops hitting a tree branch that holds bright green leaves. The background is blurry and dark, but the raindrops shimmer.

Apr 29

Published in

Middle-Pause

Creating and Holding Boundaries

Why I think of myself as a water balloon

Apr 28

An overhead view of a small white bucket sitting on cement, filled with bright-colored water balloons, surrounded by three pairs of bare feet

Apr 28

Published in

Being

Outside

Imagine the Trees Miss our Faces…

Apr 25

Outside

Apr 25

The Difficult Nuance of Verbal Abuse

Are You Being Verbally Abused? I Was — And Here’s What I Wish I Had Known

Apr 24

The Difficult Nuance of Verbal Abuse

Apr 24

Through the Mountains

The Benefits of Seeing the World Through Middle-Aged Eyes

Apr 22

Through the Mountains

Apr 22

Into the Bright

Adding Strokes of Color to an Otherwise Beige Existence

Apr 22

Apr 22

BB Heilman

BB Heilman

Teacher by trade, writer by choice, mother (and stepmother) by joyful circumstance, therapist by default. I'm just here for the stories.

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