On love and relationships

I grew up in a family where conflict was messy, and while that may have worked there, I don’t want to carry it into my friendships, my relationship, or my future family. At my core, those instincts may always be there. But I can choose differently. I can slow down, think before I speak, and hold myself back when I feel like snapping.

Kindness,... See more

We move through the world assuming we’ve mapped the people closest to us. We know their coffee orders, their dating history, the last podcast they recommended. But these are surface echoes, tidy exports of interior life. And interior life is rarely tidy.

The truth is, we all contain secret cities. Hidden interiors. Rooms within rooms. Parts of us... See more

"If someone seems boring to you... it might be that you don’t know how to prompt them. You probably don’t know how much beauty lies hidden in the people around you."