Mental Wellness and Healing

You hear your own voice getting firm and immediately wonder whether you have become cruel. Perhaps someone crossed a boundary. Perhaps you have explained the same problem six times. Yet …

You finally say you cannot do it. Then you spend the afternoon trying to figure out how to do it anyway. You look at your calendar again. Perhaps you could …

You do not have to stop feeling apprehensive before you can stand by what you said. Your voice may shake. You may need to read from a note. Dignity does …

I literally have a theme song for when I need to return to this lesson. Blame It on Me by Chrisette Michelle. “You can say whatever you like. As long …

How we slowly surrender our boundaries, judgment, and needs, and what it means to begin returning to ourselves. There is something about Nina Simone singing I Wish I Knew How …

Swatting a rape Survivor should be treated as a serious criminal offense, with enhanced penalties when the act is intended to intimidate, threaten, or retaliate against her for reporting sexual …

  updated from March 23 2025 There is a familiar pattern in history. Women organize. Women speak. Women document harm. Women build shelters, create opportunities, change laws, and fight for …

Some people do not ask you to understand them. They ask you to stop understanding yourself. Women have historically been asked to perform enormous amounts of kindness: caregiving, smoothing conflict, …

We’ve been conditioned to treat “no” like a legal defense—a deposition that requires a boyfriend, an excuse, or a calendar conflict to be valid. It’s time to flip the script. …

I thought I knew Sylvia Plath. I swear I did. I mean how you “know” a person you study. I liked her work, and time and again I answered college-level …