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Melanie Gin

Melanie Gin

211 posts •

first letter to baby

27 June 2025 2 min read

Grief

29 May 2025 4 min read

Letter to Nana

27 May 2025 6 min read

35

Love letter on my 35th birthday and 36th year of life To the lovely fairy gardener, whose patch of earth faces the pacific ocean and soaks in the morning fog,

15 May 2025 5 min read

What is lost without apology?

8 May 2025 6 min read

Apology and repair

7 May 2025 5 min read

Healing in the garden

4 May 2025 9 min read

Jekyll and Hyde

I trace the infinity loop, my pointer finger edging the bottom left curve.

29 April 2025 6 min read

Cruelty is not the point

10 April 2025 4 min read

Safety and authenticity in the family

When I leave Eveline’s office just off Ashby on Shattuck, I am often grasping for home and the release of emotion on the page.

22 March 2025 8 min read

Please disappear

Reflections from 3/11/25

11 March 2025 4 min read

Grieving the birth wound

24 February 2025 4 min read

Empty & Full

13 February 2025 6 min read

Accepting the self in its frailty; welcoming medical intervention

4 February 2025 5 min read

Feeling the pain, grief, and anger of misattunement

21 January 2025 5 min read

Towards the edge of being

7 January 2025 5 min read

Crossing the threshold

On the occasion of the New Year 2025 Dear Melanie, dear True Light of Aspiration, Peaceful Embracing of the Heart, and all other names you call yourself — Would you like

3 January 2025 6 min read

Healing powerlessness learned in relationship

23 December 2024 6 min read

Happiness and safety in my body

17 December 2024 8 min read

Breaking through glass

10 December 2024 4 min read

Finding safety in my body

27 November 2024 8 min read

Connection and fantasy

19 November 2024 3 min read

The vulnerability of connection

5 November 2024 4 min read

I’ve been thinking ‘bout forever

20 October 2024 4 min read

Being with claustrophobia and anger

2 October 2024 6 min read
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