Long before social media, the news shaped how we felt about the world.
This essay examines why I chose to disengage — not out of indifference, but to reclaim agency, clarity, and embodied empathy.
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Sensitivity
Discernment over diagnosis is a personal reflection on navigating the mental healthcare system, medication, and the fine line between trust and self-responsibility. Through lived experience with diagnosis, pharmaceuticals, and eventual healing, this essay explores why discernment — rather than blind acceptance or rejection — became my most essential tool. Not a rejection of medicine, but an invitation to listen inward and stay in relationship with your body, your symptoms, and the choices you make.
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Identity
Feed or free your mind is a reflection on attention, trust, and the quiet art of letting things glide off. From a duck metaphor to quantum perspectives, this essay explores how overthinking feeds scarcity — and how presence, trust, and a gentle release of expectations can open the door to peace in the now.
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Meaning
What starts as a desire to help can slowly turn into self-betrayal. In this essay I reflect on emotional responsibility, difficult choices, and the moment I learned that helping someone does not mean sacrificing myself. A story about boundaries, heartbreak, and choosing your own energy first.
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Power
Old emotions have a way of sneaking into the present, especially in close relationships. In this essay I explore how past experiences and stored emotions influence our reactions today — and how awareness, trust, and presence allow us to respond from who we are now, instead of who we once had to be.
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Meaning
A personal essay on resistance to meditation and the power of awareness. This piece explores how meditation creates space between thought and emotion — and why training attention can be one of the simplest ways to regain clarity and control.
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Identity
When a trigger becomes your natural state is a deeply personal reflection on how unconscious thought patterns can slowly turn pain into identity. This essay explores comparison, self-hatred, emotional outbursts, and the long path from pouring pain outward to learning how to truly let it go — through awareness, trust, and nervous system healing.
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Power
Chicory chump is a personal reflection on trust, responsibility, and the urge to guide others. What starts as a small family moment around a dinner table unfolds into a deeper lesson about letting people walk their own path — and how real care often means staying present without forcing direction.
Track down your fears and you will find your desires is a personal reflection on how fear can act as a compass. Through everyday moments, tarot symbolism, and self-inquiry, this essay explores how identifying what scares us can reveal what we truly want — and how aligning our behavior with those desires becomes a gentle form of discipline.
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Boundaries
Awareness out loud just hits differently is a reflection on how naming your triggers — literally saying them out loud — can instantly create space, humor, and choice. This essay explores how speaking awareness breaks emotional momentum and turns old reactions into something you can gently laugh at instead of obey.
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Identity
Saying no when you don’t dare to is a personal reflection on choosing integrity over fear in moments of uncertainty. This essay explores doubt, scarcity, and the quiet courage it takes to say no — while still trusting that taking care of yourself, step by step, will eventually move life forward.
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Boundaries
Know thyself – part 1 is a personal reflection on the moment my life collapsed — and how that breakdown revealed a deeper truth: I didn’t actually know myself. This essay explores self-awareness, responsibility, and how small, sincere changes can reconnect you with an authentic life that is no longer shaped by other people’s expectations.
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Identity