<![CDATA[The Open Journal with Pamela Anderson]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5dHJ!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c9e4743-7f3e-4367-8c7e-1a26404a4cc2_1280x1280.pngThe Open Journal with Pamela Andersonhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.comSubstackWed, 01 Jul 2026 02:53:35 GMT<![CDATA[The mother ]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/the-motherhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/the-motherMon, 29 Jun 2026 13:03:43 GMTA Poem…

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]]><![CDATA[Journaling]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/journalinghttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/journalingMon, 22 Jun 2026 13:03:51 GMTI write to know what I feel… not to perform it, to find it…

Because the truth is, life moves so fast… habits, schedules, conversations, obligations… all of it accumulating like layers over the thing that is actually happening inside you…

… and before long you can lose track of yourself entirely without even noticing…

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]]><![CDATA[Tough Choices]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/tough-choiceshttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/tough-choicesMon, 15 Jun 2026 13:04:05 GMTThere will always be people who try to get to you…

… the provocateurs, the ones who taunt and needle and push…

When someone tries to diminish you, destabilize you, drag you into their chaos… what they are really doing is asking for attention… In any form… at any cost…

And here is the thing I keep coming back to…

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]]><![CDATA[Make Your Unknown Known]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/make-your-unknown-knownhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/make-your-unknown-knownMon, 08 Jun 2026 13:03:22 GMTWho are you that others aren’t…?

What is percolating inside you right now…

Something you want to share, something you want to say, something you want to make or become… but haven’t yet… because of shyness, or fear…

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]]><![CDATA[Nature’s Lessons]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/natures-lessonshttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/natures-lessonsMon, 01 Jun 2026 13:04:29 GMTIt doesn’t preach or lecture or hand you a philosophy… it simply shows you, season after season, the same patient and extraordinary truth…

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]]><![CDATA[Hope is Eternal]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/hope-is-eternalhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/hope-is-eternalMon, 25 May 2026 13:03:53 GMT“To plant a garden, is to believe in tomorrow.”

- Audrey Hepburn

Think about it… you press a tiny seed into the earth… something so small, so seemingly insignificant… and in doing so you are making a declaration…

You are saying…

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]]><![CDATA[Love of Self ]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/love-of-selfhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/love-of-selfMon, 18 May 2026 13:04:00 GMTIn the face of everything… no matter what life has in store…

The good, the bad, and the ugly…

I mean that with everything I have… because I know what it feels like to be on the verge of collapse…to be so tired, humiliated… so lost in the noise of everything life throws at you—that the idea of your own becoming feels like too much to hold…

But here is what I keep coming back to…

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]]><![CDATA[Living in the Magic]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/living-in-the-magichttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/living-in-the-magicMon, 11 May 2026 13:03:43 GMTThere is magic in the ordinary… if you are paying the right kind of attention.

Spend the day as a wildflower…

I’m not seeking the dramatic kind of magic… but the small , humming, barely-visible kind…

I felt it this morning…

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]]><![CDATA[Reading Poetry ]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/reading-poetryhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/reading-poetryMon, 04 May 2026 13:03:59 GMTPoetry communicates before it is understood…

I thought I’d share a few favorites floating in my basket on rough linen paper…

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]]><![CDATA[Magnetism]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/magnetismhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/magnetismMon, 27 Apr 2026 13:03:30 GMTWhat does it really mean to be magnetic…?

Not in the performance of it… not in the calculated entrance or the curated image… or the art of being seen… those things do exist… and there is a world that rewards them… but that is not real magnetism… it is only a game.

Real magnetism is something else entirely… the gentle pull… of being truly seen…

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]]><![CDATA[Show Your Feelings]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/show-your-feelingshttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/show-your-feelingsMon, 20 Apr 2026 13:03:28 GMT
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky.”

- Thich Naht Hahn

Feeling deeply is not a weakness… it is a form of strength…

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]]><![CDATA[Wild Things]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/wild-thingshttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/wild-thingsMon, 13 Apr 2026 13:03:54 GMTYou were wild once…

There is something we have forgotten… I think we spend so much of our lives being tamed… we smooth our edges, quiet our instincts, shrink the parts of us that feel too hard to explain…

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]]><![CDATA[The Sentimentalist]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/the-sentimentalisthttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/the-sentimentalistMon, 06 Apr 2026 13:03:47 GMTI am sentimental…

I keep things… a pressed flower, a folded drawing, a particular scent that carries me instantly back…

Time collapses and there I am again… bare footed, belonging completely to a moment that lives on inside me…

Sentimentality is memory with a heartbeat…

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]]><![CDATA[Day Dreaming]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/day-dreaming-24ehttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/day-dreaming-24eMon, 30 Mar 2026 13:04:19 GMTTo imagine a world filled with flowers… to gaze off into a sunrise—or a sunset—to drift… to not know where your mind will take you…

What a gift…. what an absolutely underrated, achingly beautiful gift… this is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves…

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]]><![CDATA[Solitude is Freedom]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/solitude-is-freedomhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/solitude-is-freedomMon, 23 Mar 2026 13:03:48 GMT
It is like oxygen for me… a life giver…

I love connecting with people—but I love reconnecting with myself even more these days… getting back in the flow of my own rhythm… my true self… without anyone else’s energy influencing me…

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]]><![CDATA[Self Soothing]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/self-soothinghttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/self-soothingMon, 16 Mar 2026 13:02:39 GMTWe are all different…. but this is an absolute need…

To be able to manage our own bodies and minds—to know what helps us to soothe while the world swirls around us… stresses us and even scares us…

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]]><![CDATA[Open Hearts Heal the World]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/open-hearts-heal-the-worldhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/open-hearts-heal-the-worldMon, 09 Mar 2026 14:03:26 GMTThere are moments in life when the heart feels heavy…

When the world seems a little colder than it should be…. but even then, something inside us remembers—that softness…

Sadness is not weakness…
and hope is never wasted…

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]]><![CDATA[The Return of “Interesting.”]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/the-return-of-interestinghttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/the-return-of-interestingMon, 02 Mar 2026 14:03:13 GMT
“You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it yourself.”

- The Wizard of Oz

We spend so much of our lives looking outward for answers… for validation… for reassurance that we’re doing it right…

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]]><![CDATA[Protect Your Whimsy]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/protect-your-whimsyhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/protect-your-whimsyMon, 23 Feb 2026 14:03:30 GMTOne of the healthiest things we can to do for our mental health is to guard our whimsy…

Not so much the polished image…

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]]><![CDATA[Growing Truer]]>https://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/growing-truerhttps://pamelaanderson.substack.com/p/growing-truerMon, 16 Feb 2026 14:03:36 GMTWe have to ask ourselves… the simple silly things…

What’s my favorite color…? What music do I like…? What is my favorite flavor of ice cream…? 

Start there, and keep asking…

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