Something difficult happened. Months ago. Years ago. Possibly decades. You moved on. You built a life. You stopped talking about
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not show up on any to-do list. It is not the
People use stress and anxiety interchangeably almost everywhere in conversation, in workplace wellness programmes, in articles that offer breathing exercises
There is a particular kind of parental anxiety that arrives somewhere around the time a child turns twenty-two or twenty-three.
Most parents describe it the same way. There was a child who talked to them. Then, somewhere around thirteen or
There’s a version of this I hear constantly: “We were fine and then suddenly we weren’t.” A fight seemed to
You’ve had the tests. Blood tests, an ECG, maybe even a gastroscopy. Everything comes back normal. And yet your chest
You’re exhausted. Not just tired, you could sleep for 12 hours and still wake up feeling exhausted. You’re emotionally wrung