Some Doors Only Open From the Inside

From a whole mess to wholeness

Alice Cunningham
4 min readJul 26, 2021
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Have you ever been adrift in a sea of sadness feeling so lost you didn’t think you’d ever find your way home?

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That was me up until a few years ago.

I’d grappled with a shadowy sadness, a sort of low-level depression throughout my entire life. When I was a child, I didn’t know it wasn’t normal to experience anxiety every day. I just assumed everyone felt the same way I did.

Like many others, my internal struggles stemmed from early childhood issues and persisted throughout my 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, and even into my fifth decade.

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Over the years, I overcame these feelings temporarily by distracting myself with various activities and pursuits such as traveling for work, socializing, cocktailing, and cajoling myself into a false sense of “if I feel good now, everything’s okay, right?

Wrong.

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Alice Cunningham

Creative. Copywriter. Blooming blogger. Breathwork enthusiast. Bohemian soul. Creative collaboration inquiries: Alicecunningham00@gmail.com