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  • Published on
    October 27, 2022

    an eternal homecoming: life after excising trauma.

    mental-healthpersonal
    One of the most uncomfortable things in life (to me) is selfishness out of proportion. Trauma is the way your body hijacks you to become a tool for your survival, the most selfish and innate desire of it all.


  • Published on
    September 15, 2022

    on cracks that trip: when systems of safety push you to danger.

    personal
    Not many essays regarding human services begin with a story of someone crying in front of a gas station, but you’re in luck — this one does.


  • Published on
    October 19, 2021

    the voice that remains: cutting through the noise to find the path home.

    mental-healthpersonal
    Aetheria is going to be 1 soon. AnxietyHelper turned 6 a month ago. I turn 20 next week, and Astra turns 4 next year. And only now, for the first time, does it feel like I’m operating as myself. Not as a twin.


  • Published on
    September 30, 2021

    healing starts with the wound: facing a future that may never come.

    mental-healthpersonalsociety
    My guiding star is a vision of the future that may never come. Our coming reality is a hidden landscape with no precedent that I’m crossing in parallel with everyone else.


  • Published on
    August 10, 2021

    autism, relationships, and the quest for autonomy.

    mental-healthpersonalautism
    Having autism is having an experience of the world that is foreign, because the world is not made with you in mind. The way that you find solace is through carving out places where you change the world to be yours.
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