Big News and Not What You'd Expect

A new chapter officially begins next week

Beautiful humans!

How I have missed you 💜

I spent the last month completely flattened by the flu and a respiratory illness. I can’t exactly say that it was a fun way to pass my vacation, but being sick was clearly a reminder that I needed to remember:

I must listen to my body.

I must respect the limits of my mammalian existence.

And as much as my passion for storytelling and normalizing serious mental illness drives me to engage in projects of all kinds, I am unable to outrun my health. Writing those words leaves a pit deep in my stomach. It’s a pit I have known since I was a very little girl – the truth that this beautiful body, mind, and spirit of mine are tethered to limitations and leashes I cannot see but most definitely have yet to overcome.

Re-learning this truth over and over again is humbling. However, at the same time, as I lay in bed, lost to fever dreams and flashbacks of my past, I connected with a profound gratitude. I know this seems weird to say, and I acknowledge how it li…