What submitting essays to publications taught me about connection, rejection, and vulnerability.
Category Archives: Emotional Well-being
On Claiming Creativity
This is the story of a website, but to tell it I have to get vulnerable with you. I have to tell you what I’m most afraid of.
How Perfectionism And White Supremacy Culture Are Connected
Perfectionism and white supremacy culture are connected. Here’s what you can do about it.
What Raising Butterflies Taught Me About Miscarriage
How I learned to live with the pain and possibility of trying to conceive, pregnancy loss, and secondary infertility.
An Affirmation For Right Now
You are reducing suffering in the world, even as you are called to bear more of it.
Heart Tropism
For plants to live, roots must detect and then respond to what is happening to them. I think our hearts are a little like that.
Savoring Stopped Me From Wasting My Life
What secondary infertility taught me the role of attention, acceptance, and appreciation in creating a well-lived life.
If I Were You
We are all worthy of compassion.
Tired
If you feel tired, maybe it’s because you need to rest.
What If This Is Already Enough?
How to break free of the wanting cycle and finally be satisfied.