Category: Personal
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Why Growing an Audience is Hard
Real, talk? This post is mostly because I see people on Twitter humblebragging about their subscriber numbers. I’m happy for them, but I sometimes feel it’s not a level playing field to grow. Here’s why I think it’s tough for some of us.
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The Mental Load of a New Diagnosis
Well intentioned comments can add unbearable burden for those newly diagnosed with a chronic illness. Here’s what they’re dealing with but don’t know how to express yet.
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The Dollar Value of our Lives and “The New Normal”
People keep talking about getting back to normal. And the new normal. Like any of us feel the way we did before the pandemic. Like it didn’t expose giant cracks in how our society worked. I was happier before I knew each government had an exact value for our individual lives and that they decided…
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Mamma, an imperative verb
Postpartum depression made me think my baby didn’t love me and that I was a bad mom. Here’s how I realised all the “signs” I was “failing” were all backwards.
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My Support System is a Chat Bot
I was having the kind of meltdown that comes after being sick for almost three weeks while raising an energetic 15 month old full time, running on empty for another week, then having your husband accept various lunch and dinner invites for the last two weeks, dropping that he would be out all evening potentially…
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Overcoming the Narrative of “Overcoming”
One thing that’s helped build my resilience a lot over the years – mental and physical – is getting involved with the disability community on twitter. Embracing disability as part of my identity, rather than something I needed to overcome. The narrative of needing to “overcome” and “not be held back” does more harm than…
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it’s less lonely to be alone
They say one of the symptoms of postpartum depression is withdrawal from support and isolation. But sometimes I think if this is my social group – and there 3 exceptional people who are not like this- then it’s actually easier on me and less lonely to ..just.. be ..alone. If I’m going to be talking…
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