Cristin giving TMI

What is your favorite hobby or pastime? Muay Thai

Cristin O’Brien

October 6, 2025

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When you’re sick

You pay for that full deep breathe ten times over when you’re sick, every breathe a bargain a struggle and you just want To Easeeeee into breathe so so badly. We just pray for it to be easy but every breathe is a cough in a broken system. Every breathe brings dues and pain and…

Cristin O’Brien

October 6, 2025

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The summer I turned Unpretty.

You know back in the day they said “you are what you eat” and that was enough to scare me. It meant there are no secrets and everyone sees what you do and eating more or for pleasure was shameful. I found -who I thought-was the one at my thinnest and to his delight, I…

Cristin O’Brien

October 5, 2025

Art, History, Personal, School, Trauma

abusive relationships, adhd, anorexia, Art, broken home, compassion, culture, drugs, eating, friends, growth, help, hope, learning, mom, Personal, political, pretty, School, stories, substance abuse, thin, Trauma, truth

Artistic honesty.

My mums always been a repressed new ager in a Lilith fair kind of way… but also in a weight watchers kind of way, more on that in later posts. When she saw me start to cry today for instance she said “ maybe we should see a naturopath” she was referring to the fact…

Cristin O’Brien

October 5, 2025

Art, Coming of Age, History, Personal, School, Sociology, Trauma

90skid, adhd, Art, compassion, culture, eating, friends, growth, help, hope, learning, Personal, political, School, stories, Trauma, truth