Melissa Steussy

Joined September 2021

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Bio

Author of Let Your Privates Breathe-Breaking the Cycle of Addiction and Family Dysfunction. Available at The Black Hat Press:

https://www.theblackhatpress.com/bookshop/p/let-your-privates-breathe

https://www.instagram.com/melsteussy/

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Cabin Fever
Trying hard to breathe In a stuffy house Where the windows Are frozen Shut I gasp when I look down at my Ghost white and shockingly
By Melissa Steussy2 months ago in Poets
Mundane
I sit with a leg dangled over my Craigslist 15 dollar couch That reeked of cat piss From a college student That probably had more money than I did at 40.
By Melissa Steussy2 months ago in Poets
I Got Hit On in a Small Town Gas Station
Yes, he worked there and was half my age. Here is how it all went down. Me: Hi Him: Hi Me: (Leaving the restroom) Hi Him: (Filling the drink cooler) Hey
By Melissa Steussy2 months ago in Humans
Hey Fellas,
Do you know what gets me hot and breathing heavy? Seeing the stainless steel of my trash bin shiny without streaks. Seems easy enough, right?
By Melissa Steussy2 months ago in Humans
As a Single Mom, Starbucks Saved Me.
Ironically as I write this I am sitting in my local Starbucks. I have recently picked up coffee again after a 5-year hiatus, but here I sit.
By Melissa Steussy3 months ago in Journal
Unhealed Trauma Is at the Root of Our Addictions
Years and years of pain and hurt get shoved down beneath the surface. Parents and grandparents were told not to cry. To toughen up. To not be so weak.
By Melissa Steussy3 months ago in Poets
Who Will Help Us Sit With Our Darkest Feelings and Emotions?
Who can help us sit with our darkest feelings and emotions? We are worthy of love. We deserved to be cared for and nurtured.
By Melissa Steussy3 months ago in Poets
Stop Living in the Past
Stop living in the past. Seriously, the present is where it’s at. Stop obsessing about the future while life is passing you by.
By Melissa Steussy3 months ago in Poets
Social Media Isn't Working
All I am seeing is regurgitated lip-syncing and dances that are getting old. I am glad that Reels and Tik Toks are so popular, but I still don’t see the appeal. I honestly feel super uncomfortable watching them at times.
By Melissa Steussy4 months ago in Journal
25 Things I Can Now Do
1. See myself in the mirror and smile. 2. Greet others with eye contact and a genuine smile. 3. Think about maybe eating in the staff lounge versus alone.
By Melissa Steussy4 months ago in Poets
Take your 30-Day Challenge
Take your Atomic Habits and your washboard abs, Take your 30-day challenge and your meal plans, Take your reels and your promises of a better me and shove them up your ass.
By Melissa Steussy4 months ago in Poets
I Am Newly 45
I know when I was younger that I thought people in their 40’s and 50’s lacked style and were old. And now I sit in my high-waisted mom jeans (that are on-trend, by the way) and wonder if I am that old bag? I am the same age my mom was when she became a grandma to my son and then died 10 short years later.
By Melissa Steussy4 months ago in Confessions

Melissa Steussy

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Cabin Fever

Mundane

I Got Hit On in a Small Town Gas Station

Hey Fellas,

As a Single Mom, Starbucks Saved Me.

Unhealed Trauma Is at the Root of Our Addictions

Who Will Help Us Sit With Our Darkest Feelings and Emotions?

Stop Living in the Past

Social Media Isn't Working

25 Things I Can Now Do

Take your 30-Day Challenge

I Am Newly 45

Stories (79/0)