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The Lies We Tell Ourselves to Delay the Pain
We don’t lie because we’re dishonest. We lie because the truth hurts too much to hold all at once. So, we soften it. Stretch it. Promise ourselves later. At first, the lies feel gentle. Maybe this is just a break. Maybe time will fix it. Maybe if I change, it’ll…
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How Do You Grieve Someone Who’s Still Alive?
Grief usually comes with funerals. This kind comes with updates you don’t open. With a name you still know by heart. With a life that keeps moving just no longer with you in it. There’s a special confusion that comes from grieving someone who still exists. They’re out there. Breathing.…
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Choosing Love That Doesn’t Cost Your Health
At some point, exhaustion stops being a phase and becomes a question. Not “How do I push through this?”But “What am I willing to keep paying for love?” Because love that consistently costs your health eventually costs everything else too. Your sleep.Your clarity.Your sense of self. And choosing differently doesn’t…
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Communication When You’re Too Tired to Explain Yourself
There are moments when the hardest part of exhaustion isn’t the tiredness. It’s the explaining. Finding the words.Softening the truth.Making sure your honesty doesn’t sound like rejection. You know what you feel —you just don’t have the energy to translate it into something digestible. So instead, you go quiet. Not…
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Love That Makes Room for Your Nervous System
Healthy love doesn’t require you to override your body. It doesn’t ask you to push past your limits. It doesn’t demand presence when your nervous system is signaling overwhelm. Instead, it makes room. Room for pauses. Room for quieter seasons. Room for the reality that human beings are not endlessly…
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You Don’t Need to Earn Rest in Love
Somewhere along the way, rest became conditional. Something you were allowed after you showed up enough.After you explained yourself clearly.After you reassured, responded, accommodated. You learned — quietly — that love was tied to output. How present you were.How available.How much you could give before needing anything back. So when…
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🌿 The Quiet Recovery
Three Letters to the Nervous System After Loss Some losses don’t come with closure. They don’t come with explanations. They don’t come with casseroles or sympathy cards. They come quietly — and they rearrange your nervous system. The Quiet Recovery is a three-part spoken-word film series about the kind of…
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Love & Exhaustion
This series is for the moments no one prepares you for.The moments when you still love them — but you’re tired in a way sleep doesn’t fix.When nothing is technically “wrong,” yet showing up feels heavier than it used to.When your heart hasn’t left, but your energy has. Love &…
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The Silence After the Goodbye Is Louder Than the Fight
No one warns you about the silence.They warn you about the fighting. The slammed doors.The raised voices.The words you can’t take back.But the silence that comes after the goodbye?That’s the part that echoes. At first, it feels almost peaceful.No tension in the air.No carefully chosen words.No waiting for the next…
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The Day It Ended (Even Though We Still Loved Each Other)
It didn’t end with yelling. It ended with exhaustion. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that tells you something important has already been decided — even if no one has said it out loud yet. We loved each other. That was never the question. What we didn’t…
Say The Unspoken 