Mental Health
The Great Stability Hoax
For everyone currently pretending to be fine while quietly Googling “how to move to the woods”
Mental Health
Maybe the Problem Wasn't Me: Rethinking Anxiety When the World Really Is Too Much
There’s a really common narrative people love to circle back to when it comes to anxiety. Maybe you’ve heard it. You get all worked up about something ahead of time, because you're sure it's going to be an absolutely shit show of an experience.
Neurodivergence
Normal Is a Lie: Choose Yourself Instead
Life's taught me a lot of hard lessons over the years, but in my case, one of the most important ones was also one of the hardest to learn. It's that people are allowed to be disabled and to have limits. And they shouldn't
Mental Health
The Grace of Being Unimportant
Once upon a time, I thought I wanted to be important (and simply assumed I would be one day). Not necessarily "red carpet important," but book deal important. Someone-mentions-you-in-an-essay important. I thought being seen meant being validated, and being validated would mean I'd finally feel real
Life
When You Thought You Could Handle It (But Couldn't)
There are moments in life when you really think you’ve finally got it. You’re managing your obligations, you’ve built coping mechanisms that work for you, and you’ve certainly been through worse, so surely, you can handle this, too. Until something makes you realize you've
Life
I'm Building a Life, Not an Audience
As weird as I feel sometimes, I'm not that much different from any other content creator out there. I wouldn't say I'm doing all this to get famous or anything. I don't care about being an influencer, and at nearly 50 years
Mental Health
A Soft Thing Worth Protecting: Reflections on the Value of Empathy
As a relatively private person, there's a lot of myself I don't openly share. Not because those parts are shameful or broken, but because they’re delicate and too often misunderstood. One of those parts has always been my sense of empathy. That's the
Back to Basics
Simple Meals, Simpler Living: What Bread and Butter Can Teach Us
It was just a can of lentil stew I had sitting around. Just a little butter on a slice of sourdough from a loaf I bought the other day, plus a few walnuts and a slice or two of fresh mozzarella to round things out. (No meat, because it'
Life Lessons
Notes from the Wolf: A Survivor's Guide to Manipulators
They say a wolf in sheep’s clothing is someone dangerous pretending to be harmless. But here’s the truth you won’t hear in Sunday school or in any of the pop culture clichés littering the digital landscape these days. Some wolves wear sheep suits not to deceive, but