Sobriety: Recovery, Relapse, and Curiosity
No matter where you are in your journey with sobriety, we need you to know that it is not something you have or need to endure, explore, or navigate alone.
Two Years Since I Last Self-Harmed
I couldn’t stop, and I never thought I would.
Breaking the Silence: How Storytelling Can Heal
Storytelling won’t erase your pain, but it can transform it.
Eating Disorders & the Holidays
Experience the holidays as you are—flawed and trying, struggling and hopeful, hurting and loving.
One Good Reason
I’m asking you to stay alive because the pain doesn’t get to write your ending.
Navigating Life When Your Emotional Landscape Changes Cyclically
It can be freeing to stop fighting your own humanness.
Stories Our Scars Tell
There are still days when it all feels like too much, when I’m self-conscious and hyper-aware of the story my body tells.
What is Anxiety? An Attempt to Protect.
Anxiety that persists can lead to truly damaging physical ailments within the body, or it can make our brains feel like a boxing match of hypervigilance.
A Back Porch Meditation
Gradually Then Suddenly
The victories are microscopic: answering a text, opening the curtains, taking a shower.
Silence Isn’t Peace: The Cost of Hiding and the Fight to Live
The lie went like this: If I don’t talk about it, it’ll go away.
Measuring Grief
My brother would have turned fifty this year, but the numbers don’t seem to matter much because grief doesn’t abide by the passage of time.
