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Thinking About Myself Too Much is Making Me Sick
My 30th Year Series #4: Why Jemima Kirke's Pithy Advice Changed My Life.
Apr 1, 2025
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29 Things I Have Not Learnt About Life at 29
In this life, I will never know all-that-much. Let's celebrate that.
Jan 4, 2024
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Exercise Isn’t a Moral Test: On Society’s Looksmaxxing Obsession, Persistent Fatphobia, and Learning to Love the Gym Anyway
For years, I felt embarrassed exercising in public.
Jan 16
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17 Ways To Steady Yourself
Sep 5, 2025
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On The Sydney Sweeney Of It All
Dec 16, 2024
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The Needle Shift: I’m Glad Everyone’s Finally Over the Kristen-Bell-Dax-Shepard-style Relationship Dynamic
Oct 31, 2025
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Not Even A Ribbon
May 8, 2024
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Don’t Date a Rick
Apr 11, 2025
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PCOS.
May 2, 2025
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Pressure Cooker
The final essay in my 30th year series.
Dec 1, 2025
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The Needle Shift: I’m Glad Everyone’s Finally Over the Kristen-Bell-Dax-Shepard-style Relationship Dynamic
Women have been collectively unlearning what we’ve been told a good relationship looks like.
Oct 31, 2025
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On The Choice Vortex
& the modern obsession with Sylvia Plath’s fig tree analogy.
Oct 1, 2025
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17 Ways To Steady Yourself
My 30th Year Series #9: My advice on clawing out of a funk.
Sep 5, 2025
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How To Write When You Don't Want To
'I used to write only when I felt inspired. Now, I write every day.'
Aug 2, 2025
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Who Am I When I'm No Longer The Party Girl?
I'm going part-time.
Jul 3, 2025
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On Broken Brains: Do I Have My Own Opinions Anymore?
My 30th Year Series #6: 'My sense of self is seeping into an algorithm, or the algorithm is seeping into my sense of self.'
Jun 2, 2025
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