Our best girl took her last breath

Our best girl took her last breath on the darkest day of the year.

Jan 5 • Kate Speer

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December 2025

Chapter 7: The Choice

His words were devastating, but they turned out to be a profound gift.

Dec 5, 2025 • Kate Speer

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November 2025

The Magic of Doing Less

New science about how taking things off your plate is often a hidden path to healing

Nov 28, 2025 • Kate Speer

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With Love and Wafflenugget | 6. The Unmentionables

The hard truth of our current (and very broken) mental healthcare system for people with serious mental illness

Nov 21, 2025 • Kate Speer

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Lab Notes: Decoding Your Feelings

A deep dive on the science behind emotions, feelings, and how they arise within us.

Nov 20, 2025 • Kate Speer

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With Love, and Wafflenugget | 5. Three p.m. or the Residential Ward, Forever.

A newly released chapter and how I learned that feelings and emotions are not, in fact, the same thing.

Nov 14, 2025 • Kate Speer

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Feelings aren't what you think. Or are they?

A deeper look at feelings (and thoughts, and emotions) and how they're all mixed up in our modern understanding

Nov 14, 2025 • Kate Speer

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6 Steps to Find Safety, When Things Get Tough

And how caring for yourself builds a future with deeper, collective care.

Nov 7, 2025 • Kate Speer

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October 2025

Lab Notes: Before You Can Heal, You Have to Feel Safe

The science, the stories, and why it matters.

Oct 31, 2025 • Kate Speer

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Finding Safety at 3:45 A.M. at the Price Chopper

Because when it comes to feeling safe, you gotta do, what you gotta do.

Oct 24, 2025 • Kate Speer

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With Love, and Wafflenugget | 4. Friendship or Contamination?

Kate receives an unsettling text message from an old friend, and has to make a choice.

Oct 17, 2025 • Kate Speer

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With Love, and Wafflenugget

Start here to explore my second memoir and the chapters I've written so far

Oct 17, 2025 • Kate Speer

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