Life is absurd
sometimes there is just no justification or meaning
essays/
mostly edited, structured pieces of writing (in the process of migrating from Medium)
Quitting coffee
my process of quitting coffee and why I quit it
Yayoi Kusama, mental illness and embracing weirdness
Is some sort of extreme isolation necessary to connect deeply?
A gift of stories
sometimes we need someone to gift us a story
Fighting hopelessness
why depression is so hard to recover from
Understanding mental health with systems thinking
a simple holistic perspective on the complexity and importance of mental health
Self-quantifying to better health
with the Apple Watch
Getting healthy is really hard
When I first started on my year of experiment, a large part of it was health motivated. I was having painful dry eyes, chronic migraines and anxiety attacks. I would lie awake at…
A personal take on gay marriage rights
on the value of legal recognition
What I learned from cultivating self-compassion
on the relationship between self-compassion and compassion for other people