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June 2025

When Teens Who've Never Been To A Funeral Try To Dress For One
300 teenagers showed up to my son's funeral in prom dresses.
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An Introvert's Guide to Substack
How I traded thousands of followers for a handful of true connections
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I found my dead father on 23andMe
Father's Day is trash for people with complicated families.
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The funeral home called. My son is ready for pick-up.
Everything I learned about cremation I learned in my kitchen
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May 2025

Can we stop treating mental health like a seasonal campaign and start treating it as the foundation of human flourishing?
So we’ve come to the end of 2025’s Mental Health Awareness Month. But awareness without action is just sophisticated procrastination.
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Anxious? Sad? DIY your nervous system back to life.
The creative process as a lifeline, not a lifestyle.
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Ok fine. This is what I'm doing now.
A pivot toward what’s been right in front of me.
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Legal Pets for Emotionally Unstable People
Therapy is great. But I'm convinced a fennec fox will fix all my issues.
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Pull up a chair. Let's ruin Mother's Day together.
FML it's that time of year again.
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If you REALLY want to go viral, mention suicide.
The Internet loves trauma more than recovery.
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