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Who the Fuck is Taylor Cecelia Brook

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You are reading The Chaos Chronicles. In this post you're going to get to know everything about me. Taylor Cecilia Brook. Who the person behind The Chaos Chronicles is!

A little fun gif of me :)

Like I said my name is Taylor, and I am 30 years old. I am a writer, organizer, chaos creator AND dismantler, and your 100% unprepared life guide! I am a mother of a living 5 year old, a baby who would have been 6 this year, a bonus kiddo who is 9, and some embryos and an embryo baby floating out there. (more on that later) I have a melting pot of a family, I have a wonderful spouse, and 2 giant oversized dogs, Sheppard the Sheppard mix, and Zeus the Wolf Hybrid. Like I'm talking each one of them is over 100 lbs. I’m loud, I cuss a lot, I’m very effervescent. I also spent a good portion of my life in California. So I often talk like a valley girl. I love all things arts. I love music and fashion. painting, writing. I Love it ALLLLLL.

top left: D, Iz, Lu, Me bottom left is Zeus (on the bed) and Shep

My life can be pretty crazy but it's also amazing and so I am filled with a lot of Joy just for the life that I've been given. My Substack is basically an autobiography of my life. Everything I write is from my life. Everything I write about, and talk about on the podcast is about me; like unless I'm interviewing someone on the podcast that's the only time it is kind of not about me but even then it's still like being fueled by my curiosity my personality. So it's all about Taylor over here!!!

Anyways, I talk about my life, my grief, my time and life with Lily, my baby who lived for 5 months. I am serializing my book. I am writing a memoir on my grief process with Lily. It's called Did your Kid Die Too? So I'm serializing that here on my Substack, you can actually find that specific section! It's the section called Did You Kid Die Too?

DIGRESSION TIMEEEEEEE WOOT WOOT

Everything of mine, that I write on my Substack, is in sections based on specific subjects. You'll find everything Nitty Gritty in Real Life In The Raw. Whatever casual crazy stuff, is going to be in The Chronicles of Taylor Cecilia Brook, and then every part of the serialized book is going to be, well you get it by now. And then the podcast, you know The Curiosity Chronicles, has its own section. The names might change at some point but it doesn't really matter, they're still sections and everything has a place. It’s chaos but I’m really good at organizing that.

Back on the train

I talk about all sorts of relationship stuff. Like what I've done, how I've done all the things we've done to unfuck like the insanity that was my life before I met D. What I did to become who I am. How we started working on the things that we work on as a couple. I'll pretty much talk about anything,

I started blogging initially because of the divorce that I was going through. I was like “this is so lonely. I know way too many people who have been divorced.” But what happened was, is like it didn't become a place where I talked about my divorce, it became about money because I got hooked on Pinterest. The blog just became this whole thing that was just awful, I hated it, I didn't want to work on it.

And then…

I found Substack. It was through

cara alwill

(it won’t let me capitalize 🙄) , she was telling me, she was telling all of us on our call, that we need to go check out Substack. So I came over here and I said “HOLY SHIT!!!” I am actually able to be myself! There's people fucking doing literally what I want to be doing. So like HELL YA!! Then I realized you can make money too and I was like “oh this is great.” I'm over here able to be me, have fun, I am actually able to be myself, talk about whatever the fuck I want, cuss as much as I fucking want, talk about sex as much as I want. Talk about about grief as much as I fucking want. In the way I fucking want to. Instead of tiptoeing around it.

Off the train again!!!

Because that’s fucking stupid. Because if we don’t talk about these things. Like if we don’t talk about grief, we don’t talk about death, if we don’t talk about shitty things, they are just going to stay shitty. There’s a way to find all sorts of feelings within one situation. It's never going to be one feeling.

Get back on we are almost done lol

That's just wow a really long digression. You're going to get a lot of those in this Substack. So Yes, I say like a lot, I cuss a lot and I digress a lot. And so I hope that your into that, and if you are buckle up because it’s just gunna be a lot. Also if you’re not, it’s not going to offend me if you turn right back around and run away. I totally get it. I am not everybody’s cup of tea. And that’s ok because not everyone is my cup of tea! There’s a lot of people who aren’t lol

With my Substack I also hope to see it help promote my books that I'm going to write. I hope it helps get them published. I hope families are helped. And I hope more people who would have felt like me, like how I did in my grief process, don't have to feel like me because they have access to a community that makes them feel like they're not alone in this whole fucking horrific thing thing. Whether it’s infertility, or divorce or cheating, like you being the person who cheated on someone. Like that kind of of stuff. I just want everybody to have a space here that fits within the experiences that I've felt.

I will never be an underwater basket Weaver, I feel like that's what everybody put on their Myspace and when we first got Facebook. Anyway, I'm never going to be that and I'm never going to talk about it aside from just fucking right now. But that's okay because there are people who are talking about that, and they have a community over there. And that's the greatest thing about what we're doing over here. Like we all get to be in our healthy cliques. They are healthy cliques because Substack still exposes us to new stuff. It's like this wonderful toss of like all the things you love and then they're like “hey you might like this person” and then they might think a little differently than you but it's so fucking cool.

We are helping people, just helping others, in these really cool ways and we get to make money while doing it! Like that's just awesome! And then I get to take that money and spread it around the world. I love philanthropy. That’s just who I am. I literally ran a nonprofit and worked for another nonprofit. I’ve volunteered my whole life. I used to go to the Habitat for Humanity buildings with my mom with Junior League. Like I would go and I would help. I just love that kind of stuff.

That's why my Substack is free

I love libraries. I love I love anyway we can give back to people who don't have anything because that gives them the tools and the possibilities and the opportunities to no longer be in those positions anymore. That's just really cool. Like right now I'm listening to a bunch of stuff, and reading a bunch of stuff, all thanks to the library. Like I didn’t have to pay a dime for any of this stuff. Like it's the best like that's just how lucky we are to be in the society that we are in. So like instead of hoarding on to all that money we all benefit by giving some of it back.

So like in the end that's really what all of this is about for me. It's about freedom. For me to have freedom, I want to have time to do the things that I love. I want to have time with my family but I also want to take them on vacation. And I want nice things. But I also want to be able to have you know buildings and research facilities built in memory of people that I love. Because there's so many things that we could be helping and it's just really cool that I could be a part of something revolutionary. And I really like that idea. And whether that’s selfish or not I don’t really care because it's what I want.

But yeah that's Taylor's Cecilia Brook and the Chaos Chronicles. As you can see that whole thing was chaotic, but I hope you enjoy my brand of chaos and if you don't or if you just like really can't handle that kind of shit, I totally understand and that's okay. But if you do, let me know, and if you think there's other people out there that would like my writing, please share. It would mean the world to me!

Much Love,

Taylor Cecelia Brook

P.S. Wanna Check out some of my other stuff? Check out the sections below.