Tag: women

• Energy

  As it does every year, the recently passed winter weighed me down, and the immediate shift into the pandemic tested my strength more than I ever expected. Many winter days, I found it difficult to keep myself strong and optimistic. I longed daily for the joy Vancouver summers bring, until the potential for that summer…

  Vivian Gietz

  May 7, 2020

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  anxiety, christianity, covid-19, depression, faithfully lgbt, friendship, lgbtq, mental health, pandemic, social distancing, women

• Sustainability

  This fall, it’s been hard to stop habits I know are bad for me, even after telling myself I will. I buy flowers and light scented candles for my kitchen, put on new clothes, but the mistakes I make and doubts I have repeat themselves. I’m looping the same anxieties in my head as last…

  Vivian Gietz

  November 26, 2019

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  activism, anxiety, autumn, christian, christianity, depression, friendship, lgbtq, mental health, mental illness, millenials, queer christianity, relationships, resistance, survival, sustainability, sustainable, vancouver, womanhood, women, writer, writing

• Subtleties

  Despite the moments lived and spent, the need to write always returns to my mind with time. The weekends this summer are booked full, evenings between filled with dinners with friends and errands, weekdays of good work at the soft, steady new job. As of a few months ago, I work where women’s vulnerability, healing,…

  Vivian Gietz

  August 3, 2019

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  christian, christianity, faithfully lgbt, lgbtq, millenials, queer christianity, relationships, summer, vancouver, woman, womanhood, women, writer, writers, writing