You’re important. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that you are, but there are many ways to remind yourself. Become what you love. Wear what inspires you. …
Dear Depression
Dear Depression, You suck. You come and go, but you mostly come back to me when I’m stressed. You make me overthink things and make …
Bird Walk by Faith Reale
my Mother and i used to go on walks together. Our hands swinging, She’d point to the Singing birds and whisper their names in the …
This Paper Plane by Aditi Chanda
This paper plane that’s on my wrist Flies round and round my clenched fist As steel is pressed upon my skin To spill the things …
The Truth About Stigma
Yesterday — in one day alone — I received 121 messages from readers who wrote to let me know that All the Bright Places in …
Fragmented by Meghana Mysore
I started speaking around the age of one. But the words weren’t very profound, no; they were nothing more than letters clumped together. Monosyllabic sounds …
A Prayer for My Imaginary Little Sister by Shannon J. Curtin
Congratulations, Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, little sister, here’s my wish list. My litany of lessons, my book of prayers, the incantations I say in your …
Sun-Teens and Their Sunscreens
It’s summertime! What does that mean? Beautiful golden tans… right? Don’t magazines tell us that if you wear tanning oils with the lowest SPF, then …
The Truth About Body Dysmorphic Disorder
What is it about our emotional understanding that makes us experience the feeling of not being good enough or not having the shape we feel …