Personal Essay
For Those Who Stayed
To everyone who has written to say they’re sorry they weren’t there … you were. You just didn’t know it.
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Personal Essay
What This Is — And Why I’m Telling It Now
On leaving, on the book, and on what those five years were actually about.
3 min read
Personal Essay
What I Was Actually Trying to Say
On the summer I spent apologizing for being sick, and what I still haven't thrown away.
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Personal Essay
When Illness Outlasts Empathy
One of the quieter losses that comes with long, unresolved health issues isn't physical. It's relational. No one really warns you about this part.
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Advocacy
When Your Body Betrays You: Medical Gaslighting and Women's Health
What happens when you know something is wrong, but no one believes you? There is a specific kind of betrayal that happens when your body is screaming and the people trained to listen dismiss you.
8 min read
On Writing
Why I Wrote This Book
This isn't a book about fixing yourself. It's a book about listening to yourself. About what happens after the emergency is over.
6 min read
Mental Health
Postpartum OCD & Anxiety
Trauma rewires the brain's alarm system. Pregnancy loss increases postpartum anxiety and intrusive thoughts. But there is language for this, and you are not alone in it.
7 min read
Personal Essay
Survival
Survival isn't returning to who you were — it's becoming someone new. On May 29, 2019, I survived a ruptured brain aneurysm. Here is what no one tells you about the years that follow.
5 min read