Piecing myself together after burnout

The process of finding the root cause and addressing it

I am gradually recovering from a period of burnout — I was still functional but there was a chronic fatigue that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I rested, apathy to things I used…

I am leaving, because I can

on agency and self-love

In roughly two days I’ll leave the United States and will probably be unable to return again.

This has been a sharp about-turn for me, even for myself. I remember setting foot in San…

The courage to be ourselves

why it is important to the world to be who you are

Someone once told me that we have to dress for the job we want to have. I thought: if how I dress is the way you perceive how serious I am about my work, we have a much…

Sharing myself like an open book

giving light to my own darkness

My emotional intensity

as a source of pride and shame

I am that person capable of tears when I see two stray dogs running in tandem on a street side by side, when my friends exchange marriage vows, when strangers smile at each other on a busy street, when a street…

Creating space

the gift of space for people and ourselves

Once I shared a couch with someone, and we started exchanging stories. We told each other stories that made us the way we were, for twenty minutes.

On visibility

Is popularity — being seen and approved of by a majority, the sole indicator of success and the only way to be visible?

I have a fundamental discomfort with the spotlight. Over the years I have flip-flopped on it, understanding my responsibility to be visible so that others…

The stories we tell ourselves

the blessing and curse of believing we can be who we want to be

Sometimes I think the desire to make an impact on the world is inherently narcissistic, it almost as if one needs to be having some delusion of oneself in order to believe that we are…