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The Third Place
People talk about “the third place” like it’s a location.A coffee shop.A bar.A bookstore.A gym with good lighting and better gossip. But the third place is not a spot on a map.It’s a place inside you that wakes up when you’re allowed to be real.It’s the space in your life where you’re not being watched.Not…
What Does it Mean to Grow Up?
Growing up doesn’t happen all at once.There’s no switch.No ceremony.No moment where you wake up and feel finished. It happens quietly, in the spaces between who you were and who you can’t be anymore. Growing up is realizing that wanting something badly doesn’t make it good for you.That love can hurt and still not be…
It’s Here!
I’ve been waiting a long time to write these words:My book, Beauty Brains and a BIG Mouth, is officially published and ready for you. What started as a collection of thoughts—scribbled between meetings, whispered into the Notes app, wrestled out of late-night honesty, slowly became something bigger than me. These essays carry the stories I…
To Be Known Is To Be Loved
(and other truths we learn the hard way) I think we all say we want intimacy —real intimacy, until it arrives and asks us to open the door. Because to be known is to be loved, but not in the glittery, Instagram-ready way people imagine. Not in the soft-focus, rom-com montage way. Not even in…
No One Builds Alone
We love the myth of the self-made person.The lone wolf.The hero who rises from nothing and does everything with grit, hustle, and an alarm clock set for 5 a.m. It’s a beautiful story.It’s also a lie. Because no one builds alone.No one becomes great without hands holding them, lifting them, steadying them.Even Batman had Alfred.…
Not All Who Arrive Are Received
I used to think arriving was the goal.The finish line.The moment when everything I’d worked for would finally make sense. I imagined applause.Recognition.The kind of peace that comes when you’ve proven yourself enough times to finally stop trying. But no one tells you that arrival isn’t always a welcome.Sometimes it’s a silence.Sometimes it’s a stare…
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