love
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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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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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Quiet Love Is Still Real Love
We often mistake intensity for depth. Big gestures.Constant communication.Overt displays of affection. We’re taught that love should be visible something you can point to, measure, prove. So, when love grows quieter, people get scared. The texts slow down.The conversations soften.The energy shifts. And suddenly, quiet gets confused with distance. But…
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Loving Each Other Through Different Energy Levels
One of the hardest seasons in love is when you’re not tired in the same way. One person still has energy to talk, to plan, to connect.The other is moving slowly, conserving, barely getting through the day. And suddenly, love feels uneven. The one with more energy wonders if they’re…
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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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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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Why Exhausted People Struggle With Intimacy
When you’re exhausted, intimacy is often the first thing to disappear. Not because desire is gone.Not because love has faded.But because your nervous system is overwhelmed. Exhaustion changes how the body experiences closeness. Touch can feel like too much.Conversation can feel like effort.Even emotional connection — something you deeply want…
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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…
Say The Unspoken 