Oct 7, 2024 | Featured Posts, Imagining a better world, Joy & Contentment
I’ve left many things because I wasn’t happy: relationships, friendships, houses, cities, and jobs. I recall in those experiences saying that I just wasn’t happy. I wasn’t always clear on why I was feeling down, but I would feel softer once I gained distance, and I... 
Sep 19, 2024 | Expanding self-awareness, Featured Posts, Healing
I no longer remember when I first met my anger, it’s become so much a part of who I am that its arrival alludes me. For so long I had a tumultuous relationship with her, she felt like shame that boiled in me, my failure as a woman for not always being perky or... 
Sep 8, 2024 | Contemplations, Expanding self-awareness, Featured Posts, Healing
I’ve taken a pause from writing lately, for three reasons: One, I’ve been busy and didn’t want the pressure, although pressure has been my driving force in the past — I love pressure. Two, I’m digesting and decomposing life and information as it’s moved through me... 
Jun 24, 2024 | Contemplations, Expanding self-awareness, Imagining a better world
I feel a lot of energy from people, places, and things, and it provokes emotions that feel like too much. At times I want to stop noticing so many feelings and numb out. In those moments, I open Instagram and scroll until the numbing is overwhelming, and I realize... 
Jun 9, 2024 | Expanding self-awareness, Featured Posts, Love & Relationships
It’s early, my alarm isn’t set to sound for another hour, and yet I’m awake. I’m tired, but I can’t sleep. I feel a wave of anxiety wash over me as I realize that the brain fog I’ve been contending with will continue today, as it does when I’m tired. My emotions start...