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The writing is where all of it starts — honest essays on mental health, late diagnosis, burnout, and finding your way home to yourself.
Latest essays.
Why You Can't Rest Even When You Finally Have the Time
On burnout, depression, and the unravelling that comes before healing.
It's Not All Men. But It's Enough Men Who Stay Quiet.
A survivor on the Cornell case, who checked in, who didn't, and why it matters.
Why We Only Show Up After Someone Is Gone
On the money, the speeches, and what it would take for any of it to arrive before the crisis instead.
Stop Asking How You Can Help (Do This Instead)
“Let me know if you need anything” is the least helpful thing you can say. What to do instead when someone you love is struggling.
How Getting Diagnosed Turned My Life Upside Down
I waited a decade for the diagnosis I thought would make me whole. It did the opposite, and that turned out to be the point.
When the Body Keeps the Score: The Curriculum of Grief
When the mind lets go, so the body can heal.
The Checklist Nobody Gave Us
Written for She Matters — on the invisible expectations we inherit, and permission to set them down.
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