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Engage is a leading publication on Medium for creative nonfiction. We welcome personal essays, memoirs, and authentic human stories inspired by real-life and meaningful life lessons by makers, adventurers, and everyone with a memorable life story to share.

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Life Lessons

Lorraine Humbert in Engage

View from under the freedivers. We see the surface with the buoy, the instructor holding the buoy, and a freediver with long fins ascending right under. The water is clear.

My Freediving Journey And What It Taught Me About My Emotions

Lessons from the ocean about presence…

Ilse Anna Maria in Engage

Hurling and Healing: The Medicine of Mothering

The collective healing that I experienced through…

Rui Alves in Engage

A Day of Terror Shattered My Illusion of Safety

What the Brussels attack on March 22, 2016, taught me about humanity’s delicate thread and the importance of embracing life’s fleeting gift with open arms…

Lawrence Bransby in Engage

A Vietnamese woman stands next to a water buffalo that has been ploughing a field.

What My Lai Taught Me About War and Humanity

Lessons from a visit to the site of Vietnam’s most…

Conni Walkup Hull in Engage

A rusty and dusty turquoise vintage VW Beetle sitting in a cluttered garage.

NONFICTION | SELF

Filling Up the Empty Spaces

Why we can’t let things go

James Lloyd in Engage

Blue mountains and forested hillsides reflect in the millpond waters of the sea loch.

My 6,600 Mile Hike Gave Me Everything I Needed to be Whole

The past confronted me in ways I couldn’t…

Conni Walkup Hull in Engage

Very small car painted in colorful psychedelic designs with a flowerbox overflowing with bright flowers and vines sitting on its luggage rack.

BEING DIFFERENT IS A GIFT

For Love of the Eccentric, Odd, and Misfits

James Lloyd in Engage

Loneliness is the Gap Between Me and Myself

It is the herald announcing a call for change

James Lloyd in Engage

The top half of a ruin beside the sea catches the morning sun.

Do I Need a Diagnosis to Understand Who I Am?

Considering an evaluation after a stranger reframed my…

Richard Owen Collins in Engage

Pyrenean Wild Life

On the paradox of experience