Fall In Love With Someone, Regardless Of What They Do
Give your heart simply because it’s the most wonderfully reckless thing you can do, because love at its core is vulnerability and vulnerability is beautiful.
A Thank You Letter To Mothers
I have never held hands that were equally my own and not, at the exact same time. It is this lack of understanding that makes me want to say thank you.
Why It Really Doesn’t Matter How Many People You’ve Slept With
Sex is not the deciding factor in morality or human compassion. By sleeping with x amount of men, it does not make me less efficient in my career or unequipped to read my niece a bedtime story.
Losing A Mother Who Was Never Really There
I saw all the Hallmark commercials for Mother’s Day, actors with their perfectly manicured nails and pale pink carnations, and I wondered what that felt like, like I was on the outside of an emotion, looking in on something that I couldn’t relate to.
Let’s Talk About Self-Injury, Because We’re Still Not Having A Conversation About It
The scariest part of self-injury is that of the 300+ million people in this country, nearly two million engage in the behavior in some form and to some degree, and yet hardly anyone talks about it.