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Being Human Writing

Being Human Writing

Real lived-experience writing about care, connection, and the invisible challenges people face.

  • About Sarah
  • Eating Isn’t Simple

    For many people, food is an afterthought; something woven seamlessly into daily life, family gatherings, and celebrations. For me, it has always been something I have to plan around, fear, and recover from. My relationship with food touches every part of my life; my relationships, my work, my health, my sense of belonging.

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    sarahrevie

    March 9, 2026
    Eating Disorders, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, Systems
    anxiety, ARFID, chronic illness, eating disorder, Harm Reduction, healing, health, healthcare, life, Mental Health, system_change
  • The Weight of Invisibility

    I spend a lot of my life reading people. Not because I want to, but because I’ve learned to. Because when what you’re carrying is invisible, you don’t always get to choose what feels safe to say.

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    sarahrevie

    March 29, 2026
    Eating Disorders, Harm Reduction, Health Care, Mental Health
    Care Work, Eating Disorders, health, Invisible Illness, Mental Health, Support
  • The Weight of What We Inherit

    The things we carry in this work are not always chosen. Some are taught. Some are absorbed. And some, we have to learn how to let go of.

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    sarahrevie

    March 22, 2026
    Care Work, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, System Burnout
    burnout, compassion, compassion_fatigue, harm_reduction, healthcare, inherit, Mental Health, passed_down, teaching
  • The Work That Finds You

    The Work That Finds You explores how purpose unfolds slowly through the people we meet and the care we learn to offer. It’s a reflection on harm reduction, community, and the quiet ways this work shapes those who choose to stay soft in a hard world.

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    sarahrevie

    March 21, 2026
    Care Work, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, System Burnout, Systems
    care_work, community, harm_reduction, healthcare, helping, hope, mental_health, person_centered_care, social_services, system_change
  • These Systems Were Never Built for Us

    People like to say the system is broken. But the truth is a lot harder to sit with than that. Most of the time, the people deciding which programs receive funding have never worked in the field themselves. They have never held someone’s hand while they cried because they were banned from the one place…

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    sarahrevie

    March 15, 2026
    Care Work, Eating Disorders, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, System Burnout, Systems
    addictions, community, disability_access, eating_disorders, Harm Reduction, harm_reduction, healthcare, mental_health, mental_health_care, mental_health_care_access, system_change
  • A Moral Failure

    My heart breaks for the human beings who will die because of this decision. It sits heavy in my chest, knowing that the people responsible for making it likely do not feel that same heartbreak. They do not know the lives they are about to have a hand in ending. I do.

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    sarahrevie

    March 14, 2026
    Care Work, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, Systems
    Care Work, community care, compassion, Harm Reduction, healing, health, legislation, Mental Health, policy, supervised_consumption_sites
  • The Weight We Share

    To the burnt-out and the lost. To the ones who keep choosing care even when it breaks their hearts. To the ones who have held anger, guilt, and grief in the same breath and kept going anyway. To those who stay, even when it feels like the world has stopped listening. This is my love…

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    sarahrevie

    March 8, 2026
    Care Work, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, System Burnout
    burnout, community, community care, compassion, emotional labour, Harm Reduction, healing, healthcare, Mental Health, systems change, writing
  • The Weight of Systems

    There’s a space between help and hope — wide enough to hold a system and small enough to fit in the pause before a worker says, “I’m sorry, there’s nothing more I can do.”

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    sarahrevie

    March 7, 2026
    Care Work, Harm Reduction, Social Services, System Burnout, Systems
    Care Work, healing, healthcare, life, love, Mental Health, Person-centered, Social Justice, Social Services, Systems, writing
  • The Weight of Softness

    Softness is heavy. It sounds gentle but carrying it every day; in crisis calls, intake notes, late-night worries. It begins to ache in the bones. We are told to bring empathy, to hold space, to stay curious even when the stories are unbearable. And most days, we do. But softness is not weightless. It gathers.…

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    sarahrevie

    March 7, 2026
    Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, System Burnout
    burnout, Care Work, community care, compassion, emotional labour, Harm Reduction, healthcare, Mental Health, systems change

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