Tag: overthinker
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Outside Noise
I thought it was a universal human experience to walk into a room and immediately begin calculating how to be “palatable.” I thought everyone spent their drive home replaying conversations, wondering if they said too much, or if their tone had misinterpreted, or how others thought of me. If they wondered if they had accidentally…
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I Stopped Scrolling and Started Living: What Getting Off Social Media Taught Me
What if the reason you feel stuck isn’t because you need more—but because there’s too much noise? After stepping away from social media, I discovered something surprising: a quieter mind, a deeper appreciation for my life, and a passion I never saw coming. Here’s what happened when I finally stopped scrolling.
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The Trial Inside My Head: Why I’m Finally Putting Down the Red Pen
If someone else spoke to me the way i speak to myself, I would call it emotional abuse. I would tell a friend to walk away from that relationship; I would recognize it as toxic and cruel. But because the voice lives inside my own skull, I call it “accountability.”
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8 Ways To Build Confidence (While Still Figuring Life Out)
For most of my life, I lived with a quiet, persistent suspicion: everyone else has a secret that i missed. I’ve spent years scrolling through social media, watching carefully curated lives unfold on a screen, and feeling the stinging ache of being “behind.” I compared my messy, unpolished reality to everyone else’s highlight reel and…
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The Invisible Timeline
Most of us walk through adulthood carrying a hidden document in our minds. It is unwritten, unspoken, and completely fictional, yet we treat it like a a binding legal contract. I call it the invisible timeline.
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The Performance of Being Good
Somewhere along the way I confused being good with being everything. Good mothers don’t lose their patience. Good partners don’t complain too much. Good women don’t need reassurance.
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The Social Media Spiral
It doesn’t start dramatically. It starts with a heavy sigh, a quiet moment on the couch, or a five-minute break between tasks. I pick up my phone. Just a scroll. Just a bit of “down time”.