Personal growth
Writing on self-understanding, inner change, healing, and the work of becoming more fully yourself.
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On Slowing Down Enough to Hear Yourself
There is a kind of knowing that does not arrive when you are rushing. You cannot force it.You cannot squeeze it out of yourself by…
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Becoming More Yourself
Personal growth has become one of those phrases that can lose its meaning if we are not careful. It can start to sound polished.Branded.Like a…
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Motherhood Is Not Small Work
Motherhood is some of the biggest work I have ever done, and also some of the least visible. It is not only the practical work,…
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The Shape Grief Takes When It Comes Back
Grief is strange because it does not always arrive like grief. Sometimes it comes as tears.Sometimes it comes as exhaustion.Sometimes it comes as a sudden…
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The Sink Full of Dishes and the Sacredness of Small Things
Some days I think life is made almost entirely of tiny things. Lunches.Messages.The laundry that somehow multiplies in the night.The dishes in the sink.The shoes…
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The Quiet Alchemy of Becoming
There are seasons when change feels loud. You cut your hair.You move the furniture.You end the friendship.You say the hard thing out loud and the…