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Milly D

Reflections on 2023

As a new year begins, I thought it might be somewhat therapeutic to look back over the past twelve months and reflect on the people, places…

4 min readJan 2, 2024

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Reflections on 2023

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Milly D

Chemistry: a poem about my latest addiction

That magnetic attraction, the giddy feelings, electric sparks and intensity, my knees go weak when you hold my gaze and nothing makes sense…

3 min readNov 17, 2023

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Chemistry: a poem about my latest addiction

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Milly D

Detaching: a break-up poem

How do you detox from an intoxicating romance? I’ve sought endlessly to silence the internal rants, the intrusive thoughts and grudges I…

3 min readJun 20, 2023

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Detaching: a break-up poem

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Brave the wilderness: a poem about division and finding yourself

How has it come to this? So many subjects causing divide, forcing each of us to pick a side, as if the only options are A or B, yes or no…

2 min readMay 5, 2023

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Brave the wilderness: a poem about division and finding yourself

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What I learned from meditating in silence for 10 days

It was almost a decade ago when I first heard about Vipassana from a man I met in Mexico, who shared his experience of doing a 10-day…

10 min readNov 18, 2022

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What I learned from meditating in silence for 10 days

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Why I’m reluctant to get a Covid-19 vaccine

It seems that anyone who expresses concerns about the Covid-19 vaccine instantly gets dubbed an “anti-vaxxer,” so let me start by saying I…

3 min readAug 18, 2021

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Why I’m reluctant to get a Covid-19 vaccine

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Fucked up: a poem about society and mental ‘illness’

Are we all fucked up, or is our pain just desperate to be seen? Like a child pleading for his mother’s attention, while her eyes remain…

3 min readJan 28, 2021

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Fucked up: a poem about society and mental ‘illness’

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My 20 gratitudes for 2020

It wasn’t all bad.

16 min readDec 29, 2020

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My 20 gratitudes for 2020

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Milly D

How the 12 steps can be applied to society as a whole in 2020

Since joining Alcoholics Anonymous back in 2015, I have often marvelled at how its 12 steps have transformed the lives of many desperate…

9 min readJul 4, 2020

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How the 12 steps can be applied to society as a whole in 2020

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Preparing for the menopause in your thirties

It may be less of a taboo topic these days, but the menopause still has a stigma attached to it; women feel that it’s an ending, something…

4 min readMay 7, 2020

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Preparing for the menopause in your thirties

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Milly D

Milly D

Young female in recovery with a thirst for life — Writes about addiction, self-development and conscious living — Featured in Cosmopolitan UK and Glamour UK.

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