COLUMN: Self-love and self-care made all the difference
My mental health is better than it has ever been since I have gained a better understanding of what mental health is.
Tag Archive for: before & After
COLUMN: Don’t be ashamed of your grudges
I believe that it’s OK for someone to leave your life. I feel stronger for letting go, even if I don’t forget.
COLUMN: Hookups don’t heal love’s old wounds
Turkey Dump is a term we threw around as college freshmen to describe the distinct phenomenon of high school sweethearts breaking up over Thanksgiving break. I watched Hallie and her boyfriend in Santa Barbara crash and burn a few weeks before, and Liv dumped her boyfriend from Oregon a few weeks before that. Then, as […]
Column: Valentine’s, Undefined
Josh had a weekly radio show and was part of a touring improv troupe. I had his name saved in my phone with the octopus emoji. When I think of him, I often picture him telling me he knew how to do a gun trick straight out of an old Western film. I cringed at […]
COLUMN: For Jake: four days after our break-up
I didn’t think my “Before and After” column title would ever be so pertinent. But here I am — writing four days after the end of my relationship.
COLUMN: Here I go again: lessons for future me, from me
I finished the journal I’ve been keeping since I was 17 this week. The last page of writing was basically a love letter to the book itself. I made a list of all the things it survived. Then I read through past entries. In one, I described uncontrollable itchiness and napping two or three times a […]