The Journal
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Where we name what you've been carrying — and offer ways to set it down.
On invisible agreements, inherited roles, and the quiet persistence of obligation
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Not all relationships are chosen.
Some are maintained through momentum. Through history. Through an unspoken se...
On relational fluency, hidden labor, and the frameworks that make room for you
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There is a cultural virtue we rarely question: being easy to be with.
We praise the friend who never complicates ...
Freedom doesn’t come from trying harder. It comes from building better.
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Discipline is often presented as the solution.
If you were more disciplined, you'd follow through. If you were more disci...
You don’t need a new version of yourself. You need a different relationship with guilt.
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January arrives carrying expectations.
New habits.
New discipline.
New standards.
A quieter pressure that sa...
It’s 10:47pm. You’re on your best friend’s couch, a glass of wine in your hand. Her kids are asleep down the hall. Yours are home with your partner. You just said the thing you never say.
That you sn...
It’s 11:14pm and you’re scrolling LinkedIn in bed.
Someone you used to work with just announced something—a promotion, a launch, a pivot into exactly the kind of work you’ve been circling in your min...
It’s 9:47pm. The kids are finally asleep. The kitchen is mostly clean. You sit down on the couch for the first time since 6am.
And before your body even settles, the voice arrives.
You should switch...
It’s 7:14am and you’re packing a lunch your kid could pack themselves.
You’re also scanning the counter for the permission slip that needed signing yesterday, mentally tracking the library book that’...
You’re giving your kid a bath and you’re not there.
Your hands are in the water. You’re making the right sounds. But your mind is three rooms away, drafting an email you should have sent two hours ag...
