This year of healing anxiety brought surprises, comforts (and discomforts), and an entirely new way of being alive. If you’re someone who identifies with the experience of anxiety and is wondering if it will ever get better — it will. I promise. Your healing will surprise you. It happens in…

The only reprieve from suffering is by clambering down into it together. I’ve been on the receiving end of grief recently. What I mean by that is people I love have been coming to me with their pain. This is perplexing to me because I have felt panic-stricken myself, anxious…

College application deadlines are quickly approaching, and it can be overwhelming to keep track of which deadlines are up next. …

The adrenaline of being seen and felt and discovered by new voices feels like a rebellion. What part of this emotional insurrection is about me? I HAVE BEEN UP LATE, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE RHYTHM I WANT TO LIVE IN. I am warming and cooling and pushing viciously against what I’ve built in Seattle, brought to Sydney, and lost in the process — it seems…

The sky today is a wet, lazy gray — dramatic and playful, the huge raindrops separate the crowds into umbrellas and rain-jackets. …

TRIGGER WARNING: In this article, I discuss themes of relationship abuse, including physical, emotional, and mental, low self-esteem, addiction, codependence, and my experience with relationship trauma. This is part of my story, and while I write for others to find themselves within my writing, I also urge you to take…

MY FIRST ARTS EXPERIENCE BEGAN WITH A GOOD-NATURED, CAREFREE, SLOTH BEAR. Jungle Book, the animated musical comedy adventure film, played once a day on our chunky, gray television set while my mom plopped my equally chunky toddler legs on a baby-sized couch with my beloved stuffed ram in hand, bottle in the other. …

I have been struggling recently with non-authentic conversations. The past year has been a really incredible time for working hard at maintaining authenticity in everything I do — especially as I transitioned into new workplaces. Trying to balance authenticity at work without letting my personal life flood into my job was a challenge. Frankie & Jo’s, the King…

How in the world can we be in sync with the person we love when they aren’t next to us? Loving without touching is a new feeling. AIRPORTS ARE PLACES FOR REUNIONS AND SEPARATIONS. The blurry vision from squinted, exhausted 4:30am security lines and the incredible roar of a 175,000lb jet plane taking off became the way…