mental health

hope

Ode to My Therapist

How losing my guide taught me to captain my own ship.

mindfulness

Tough Love Is a Bullshit Tactic

Especially when fake friends use it as a weapon.

hope

Loneliness Needs Better Branding

The problem with loneliness is the marketing.

hope

Easier to Love When Edited

What if the version of me people accepted was never the whole me?

hope

The Day Everything Caught Up With Me

It happened in a dentist chair, but it had been building for years.

hope

I asked ChatGPT to help me write a suicide note. What I got instead was a conversation.

I expected a refusal. What I got instead was a conversation that helped keep me here.

self care

Survival Has Consequences

I Didn’t Fail at Brushing My Teeth. I Was Surviving.

mindfulness

Performative Empathy, Pop Psychology, and the Stuff That Starts to Feel Off

If I hear “holding space” one more time, I might wonder if we’re actually doing it… or just saying it.

mindfulness

Be Mindful of the Force (Again)

Train your mind like a Jedi: be present, grounded, aware.

hope

The Comparison Trap

The fastest way to lose yourself is to measure your life against someone else’s highlight reel

Spiritual

No One Is Coming to Save You… Or Are They?

No one can fix it for you, but that doesn’t mean you’re on your own

hope

Resistance Is Futile: Treatment-Resistant Depression (Part 2)

My experience navigating depression that didn’t respond to treatment