Trauma-Informed, Unpolished & Unapologetic: Reflections from an Almost Social Worker
For the truths that outgrow the roles they were handed.
Self-Relection
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Learning Myself Out Loud
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≻: Learning Myself Out LoudThere’s a particular intimacy in letting people see you while you’re still in motion. Not the finished version. Not the…
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Efficiently Expecting the Worst
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≻: Efficiently Expecting the WorstWhat makes you nervous? Pretty much everything makes me nervous because my brain loves to run simulations of every possible…
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What It Means to Care This Much: Part 2
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≻: What It Means to Care This Much: Part 2I thought the tightness in my chest would ease once I slept, but it followed me into today — quieter,…
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What It Means to Care This Much
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≻: What It Means to Care This MuchToday pulled me into a space I wasn’t expecting — the kind of space where your heart reacts before your…
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The Things I Thought I’d Grow Into
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≻: The Things I Thought I’d Grow IntoWhen you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? When I was five, I wanted…
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Building Something Better for Them
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≻: Building Something Better for ThemThere’s a version of our story people like to tell — the one where he stepped into my life at…
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The Work People Don’t See
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≻: The Work People Don’t SeeWhat’s something most people don’t understand? Most people don’t understand how much of someone’s growth happens in silence. They see…
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The Reflection That Opened the Door
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≻: The Reflection That Opened the DoorVulnerability is one of those deceptively simple words that looks harmless until someone asks you to define it. It sounds…
