I Love Mess
Groups of women are a tricky business!
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Essays & Reflections
Explorations on identity, purpose, and the messy work of becoming yourself. All essays are published on Substack.
2025 Books
A recap
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My Relationship with Alcohol: Part 3
The final installment on where I stand with booze.
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Starting over...yet again
Why am I always on the move?
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What's the point?
Even the winner feels lost
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Grad School Crash and Burn
How trying to become a mental health counselor destroyed my mental health
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What You Should Be Watching Instead of White Lotus
Yes, I am late to post this...
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My Relationship with Alcohol - Part 2
The middle: post-college/early twenties
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Blerg
My brain is broken
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Favorite Pockets
San Diego edition
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Memory and Loss
For my birthday this year, we went to Carmel.
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Goodbye 2024!
A list of what I'm taking and leaving
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My Year in Books
A recap (mainly a rant) of 2024
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Birth Story
I’ve been writing this story in my head for the last 12 weeks but couldn’t bring myself to actually get the words down.
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Dear Baby / A Rich Life
Therapists always try to nail down when my “I will never be good enough” complex began.
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How do you decide where to live?
I spend too much time thinking about where I should live.
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Money vs. Happiness
Or passion vs. stability
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Lately vol. II
a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing
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Scattered thoughts and fears about a big life change
The most quotidian update
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The Art of Storytelling
Who gets to tell what stories?
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Lately
Unorganized thoughts
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Part 3: My 10-day Silent Meditation Retreat Experience
The end. Now what?
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Part 2: 10-day Silent Meditation Retreat
Cravings and aversions galore!
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Part 1
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Today I’m heading to a 10-day silent meditation retreat.
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My Mind & Me
A new appreciation for Selena Gomez
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Taking Myself Seriously
Is it junk or is it art?
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What if?
What if I am not a “career” person?
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Success disaster
Unlucky and smart
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Resistance
Perfectionism is self-harm
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Vulnerability Hangover
How do you want to feel?
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My Relationship with Alcohol - Part 1
The beginning: high school and college years
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Recalibrate Your Enoughness Gauges
What is enough?
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Still Stuck
How do you end old thought patterns?
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My notes in chronological order
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Thoughts on Barbie
I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS
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For Love of the Library
Memories from a special place
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Two things can be true
Unpacking contradictions and moral compromises
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Feeling weird
Worrying too much about what others think about me
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My Favorite Spots in SF
A trip down memory lane
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What do you have to show for it?
“You can't do anything brave if you're wearing the straight jacket of what will people think.” - Brene Brown
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Natural Beauty
Examining appearance shame
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A List of My Inspirations
“Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist” - Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
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Friendship Struggles
What makes one friend the best?
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My Hair
An emotional roller coaster
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10. Coffee: A Love Story
Like specific music, coffee shops define and transport me back to different periods in my life.
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9. Gatekeeping
This morning I wasted time on Facebook and saw that I graduated from college exactly 9 years ago today.
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8. How did I get here?
I couldn’t get a note to come together yesterday. I’m sure you were all disappointed not to get a nugget from me clogging up your Wednesday inbox. I have been having some revelations lately and words...
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7. Stuck - Gut vs. Logic
I am part of a group that meets weekly to discuss as we read and work through Julia Cameron’s book, “The Artist’s Way.” We are halfway through the 12-week program.
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6. Just Watch Me
“It’s the journey, not the destination.
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5. Making Meaning
I have always had a peripheral interest in death.
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4. Sink or Swim
When my hero, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was asked to encapsulate what it means to lead a meaningful life, she said, “To put it simply, it means doing something outside yourself.
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3. There Is No Destination
Part of my existential crisis - which has resulted in me quitting my corporate job and relocating to Bend - has been fueled by my need to feel like I need to have my life “figured out” before I have...
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2. Owning My Story
Yesterday I was hit by a chairlift.
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1. Still Small
Welcome to “Still Small,” a newsletter and podcast exploring how to listen to your inner "still, small" voice instead of staying "still small" within society's default rules.
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