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New on Substack: “The Weight I Learned to Carry” — Issue #4 Is Live

Some weight you choose. Some gets handed to you before you’re old enough to set it down. Issue #4 of the Poetic Bipolar Mind Substack, “The Weight I Learned to Carry,” is live now — a new piece of writing about the burdens that shape us, and what changes when you stop just surviving them and start learning how you carry them.

If you’ve ever carried something heavy in silence, this one was written for you.

📖 Read it free on Substack: https://poeticbipolarmind.substack.com/p/the-weight-i-learned-to-carry

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