Listen to the audio version of this blog post. Your browser does not support the audio element. My first therapist, “Annette”, called her, “The Dismayed Woman.” DW was perpetually disappointed by everyone and everything, especially me. I’ve known her for a long time. Perhaps for as long as memory serves. I used to think she […]
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Looking back on 2024, I decided to make a list of all my wins, big and small. But lists like that are tedious to make and irrelevant to anyone other than me. The fact that I got into the grad school of my choice after figuring out what I want to do with my life
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Matrescence, if you don’t already know, is the stage of women’s lives when we undergo changes to our hormones, changes to our bodies, changes to our relationships, changes to our identities, all in the service of becoming a mother. This change is similar to the change we all go through during adolescence when we underwent
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