Chronic Anxiety Condition: When Problems Aren’t Figureoutable
Listen to this essay. Headphones are highly recommended. Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. "Nothing in life is as kick-ass as taking full responsibility for…
Beyond Pride: The Building Blocks of Second Chances
Listen to this essay here. Headphones are highly recommended. Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. My college roommate Maya texted me last spring after three…
Three Steps: Why Change Begins With One, Not All
Listen to the full essay here. Headphones are highly recommended. Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. This is part 3 of 10 of the Counting…
Blue Day: The Weight of the Unnameable
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. It was the first Blue Day of the month, the kind of late-March day in Chicago where the relentless…
Why You Type the Same Word Twice (Dittography): When I Can’t Tell Error from Emphasis
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. My friend's mother died suddenly five days after celebrating her 62nd birthday. I spent two days not knowing what…
How a Single Belief About Learning Shaped My Life (And How I Changed It)
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. Mrs. Calloway said it in our English Lit class during the ideas submission period, forever changing how I felt…
The Receipt in the Drawer: Why True Letting Go Is Filing, Not Deleting
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. I can throw away a jacket without a second thought. The worn-out boots, the expired spices, the box of…
The Composure Trap: Why Your Constant Need to be “Fine” is a Structural Defect
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. The applause was enthusiastic, and the meeting closed with the usual promise. Everyone stood, gathered their things, and filed…
The Inherited Script: Why You Keep Walking the Same Path
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. The conversation was ordinary. A colleague asked a simple question, and my chest tightened before I could form a…
The Phoenix Who Is Tired of Rising
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. The fall was not dramatic. That is the part nobody tells you about. There was no single moment of collapse,…
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