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You’re Not Losing It… You’re Not Alone: Perimenopause, Awareness, and Letting the People You Love In

For a long time, this transition happened almost entirely behind closed doors. A woman would notice something shifting, her mood, her sleep, her body, her mind, and quietly assume it was just stress, just aging, just her. She’d mention it to no one, because there was no name readily offered for what she was feeling,…
Why Being “Too Much” Was Never the Real Problem

Someone told you that you were too much. Maybe they said it directly. Too intense, too sensitive, too emotional, too loud, too needy, too opinionated. Too big for the space they wanted you to fit in. Maybe they never said it out loud but communicated it in the ways people do, the eye roll, the…
Finding Confidence When You’re in a Low Point

There’s a specific kind of low that doesn’t feel like sadness exactly. It feels like distance, from yourself, from the person you know you actually are, from the confidence that usually feels like second nature. You look for it and it’s not where you left it. You try to talk yourself into it and the…
ADHD and the Superpower Underneath the Struggle

If you’ve lived with ADHD, or loved someone who has, you already know the parts that get talked about most: the forgotten deadlines, the half-finished projects, the racing thoughts in a meeting that’s supposed to have your full attention, the exhaustion of trying to function inside systems that were never built for how your brain…
ADHD and the Superpower Underneath the Struggle

If you’ve lived with ADHD, or loved someone who has, you already know the parts that get talked about most: the forgotten deadlines, the half-finished projects, the racing thoughts in a meeting that’s supposed to have your full attention, the exhaustion of trying to function inside systems that were never built for how your brain…
The Comfort of the Familiar Problem

You know this problem well. You could describe it in your sleep, the same argument you keep having, the same job you keep tolerating, the same pattern with money, the same relationship dynamic that never quite resolves. It’s painful, genuinely painful, and yet there’s something about it that also feels, in a strange way, manageable.…
Dealing With Difficult People…. and Knowing When to Walk Away

You’ve tried the reasonable approach. You’ve tried staying calm, explaining yourself clearly, giving the benefit of the doubt, showing up with patience even when it wasn’t returned. And somehow, no matter how much effort you bring to the relationship, the same pattern keeps repeating, the criticism, the volatility, the way every conversation seems to end…
The Comfort of the Familiar Problem

You know this problem well. You could describe it in your sleep, the same argument you keep having, the same job you keep tolerating, the same pattern with money, the same relationship dynamic that never quite resolves. It’s painful, genuinely painful, and yet there’s something about it that also feels, in a strange way, manageable.…
The Identity You’re Protecting Without Realizing It

You’ve tried to change this before. You know exactly what to do, the budget, the follow-through, the calmer response instead of the reactive one. You’ve read the advice, made the plan, even started well a few times. And yet, a few weeks in, something pulls you quietly back to where you started, as if an…
Self-Sabotage as Self-Protection in Disguise

You had momentum. The opportunity was real, the promotion, the relationship, the launch, the fresh start you’d been working toward for months. And then, somewhere close to the finish line, something in you quietly pumped the brakes. You put off the application until the deadline passed. You found a reason to pick a fight the…