I spent most of my early life inside hospital rooms that smelled like disinfectant and hopelessness. Doctors knew my name better than my friends did. I was the girl who looked fine on the outside but was quietly falling apart inside. By twenty-two, I had already collected more diagnoses than birthday candles(reason). My body was […]
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Some weeks ago, I was in one of those rare peaceful stretches. My days were filled with writing, meditating, and doing the kind of deep work that makes you feel new again. I had just finished a self-organized mini retreat at home, a full week of being with myself, peeling off old layers, and removing
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I used to think energy came from the brain. You know, push harder, think harder, work harder, and somehow that would fuel me. but real life didn’t play along. I would sit at my desk, power through emails, push my brain like it was some old car engine, and by the end of the day,
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I know survival mode better than I know my own reflection. For years it was my default setting. Wake up, hustle, grind, collapse, repeat. Always scanning for danger, always bracing for the next blow, never once asking what kind of future I was actually creating. Maybe you know that cycle too. The one where life
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I didn’t learn about epigenetics in some classroom, I lived it in my body. After years of trauma stacked on trauma, I thought I was just cursed with bad luck and weak health. But when you grow up wired for survival, constantly hustling, constantly scanning for the next threat, your biology pays the bill. I
I used to wear stress like a badge of honor. Maybe you’ve done it too. You know that twisted sense of pride when you brag about pulling all-nighters, grinding through work even while sick, or juggling a million responsibilities without dropping a ball? For me it went back to childhood, being parentified early on, I
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