I dream about your little face all the time. Would you have my curly brown hair? Your father’s chubby cheeks? What would your smile look like? The dream is the same, every time. I walk into the ...

For 25 years, I ran. Not literally, though some days it felt that way. I ran the family business. I ran the household. I ran toward my children with everything I had because I loved them completely ...

We haven’t been able to properly connect in a while. She’s been consumed by work, and the few times we did speak her voice was stressed and clipped. It wasn’t the conversation I was longing for. And ...

I am not someone who discovered gratitude last year. I have kept a gratitude journal for much of my adult life. I have turned to it in grief, in burnout, and in the ordinary seasons that needed ...

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She said she didn’t like labels, but Butch just fits. It’s just what I am. She said she was just a simple girl with two dogs, a truck, and a cock, a simple girl who loved me. And I laughed because if ...

There was no one particular moment when it struck me; it was more of an accumulation of moments one by one that stacked onto one another over time. Each single circumstance was just that—a single ...

During that global pandemic that disrupted life as we know it, many people attempted to find the silver lining in the chaos. For some, it brought people closer to their friends and families. For ...

We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...

Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...

I’ve struggled to find the words this week. To find the balance between blind rage and constructive communication. To understand why I feel the need to find that balance at all. Racism isn’t new to me ...