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Visualization sounds simple enough. Picture the life you want. Hold the vision clearly. Feel it as if it’s already yours. And eventually, it should start to take shape. But if it worked that way, more ...

It was an utterly exhausting way to exist—a 24-hour shift of pretending to be someone I wasn’t. I moved through the world with my guard up and my heart locked away, terrified that if I let anyone get ...

I didn’t lose my intuition. I was taught to override it. Not by a single person, and not all at once, but through repeated, normalized language delivered by those closest to me. I took me a long time ...

During that global pandemic that disrupted life as we know it, many people attempted to find the silver lining in the chaos. For some, it brought people closer to their friends and families. For ...

Saying “thank you” ain’t nearly enough, I’m sure we agree, but it’s a start! Those who know war, as they say, hate war. It’s not a thing of glory, it’s a thing of mud and blood. Plato said “Only the ...

There was once a man who was visited by three goddesses. They were attempting to settle a dispute between them, a trifling matter to determine which of them held claim to the golden apple that had ...

We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...

She was done not fully being herself. She realized she was the only self she could be—and not being unapologetically true to herself was a disservice to her soul and the world. She was done listening ...

Loneliness is not a thing to be conquered. It’s a thing to make friends with—then you’ll be with your best friend wherever you go—your sweet red heart. I just attended the Nutcracker, with family ...

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