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This piece is a reflection on the challenges of balancing work, family, and personal well-being, particularly when faced with a demanding job. Through personal anecdotes, they recount the stress and eventual realization of needing to prioritize their mental health over work demands, leading to a pivotal moment of change.
A raw reflection on exhaustion, motherhood, and the state of our planet. Between parenting, politics, and the weight of global crises, this personal essay explores what it means to keep caring when the world feels like it’s falling apart.
A raw and reflective essay on living with Bipolar Disorder while navigating friendship, motherhood, and forgiveness — part of the #NanoPoblano2025 challenge.
A meditation on intimacy, distance, and the quiet unraveling of connection. Between the ache of touch and the silence of separation, this piece drifts through memory, longing, and self-recovery — from the heat of a shared bed to the cold clarity of a Cape Breton night. What begins as the familiar rhythm of two bodies pressed together becomes a reckoning with solitude, desire, and the haunting question of what it means to want again.
Creative nonfiction on trauma, memory, and survival. A raw personal essay about childhood wounds, motherhood, and healing through words.
A poetic exploration of limerence—intense romantic obsession marked by longing, fantasy, and emotional highs. This post delves into the allure of forbidden desire, imagined intimacy, and the haunting grip of unfulfilled love. A raw, lyrical portrait of infatuation that blurs reality and illusion, capturing the ache of wanting without end.
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