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Posts here move through the harder, less nameable parts of healing: the nervous system, the rhythms of a day, the slow work of finding steadiness again.
In My Slow Summer Era
It was in the 90s last week; the air quality was the worst I’ve ever experienced, and I lasted about four minutes outside. I had a whole list of things I wanted to do, and I did none of them, and then I spent the evening with that feeling of
Maintenance | The Parts Nobody Talks About
There’s an old chair in the corner of my bedroom that I walked past for probably two years without really seeing it. It just held clothes or random things that needed to be put away that didn’t have a home yet. A few weeks ago, I finally cleared it off,
What I Planted In My Patio Garden When I Stopped Waiting
There was a day a few weeks ago when I was just so deep in my head about everything going on in life. The housing market, the money, the timing, and the uncertainty of everything. I had been sitting with all of it for too long, and I was not
The nervous system basics I wish someone had explained sooner
Nobody explained to me that what I was feeling had a name. For a long time I just thought something was wrong with me. I was tired in a way that sleep did not fix. It was there when I woke up. It was there when I went to bed.
How I Finally Improved My Sleep Naturally
The first thing I changed wasn’t my food. It was 11:30 pm and I was still on my phone. Scrolling. Not because I wanted to be. Because stopping felt harder than continuing. My eyes would go tired before my brain did, and I would lie there in the dark, waiting