Tag: healthcare
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Eating Isn’t Simple
Eating Isn’t Simple is both a personal story and a love letter to those who have lived something similar. Through a harm reduction lens, it explores the complex intersections of food, mental health, disability, chronic illness, and survival, and the quiet ways systems often fail people while leaving them to carry shame for struggles that…
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The Weight We Share
The Weight We Share is a love letter to those who keep showing up — workers, community members, and helpers who refuse to let systems strip away their compassion. It reflects on the grief, solidarity, and collective care that make it possible to keep going.
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The Weight of Systems
This article explores the quiet distance between what workers want to do and what systems allow them to do. It’s about the ache of showing up in a structure that constrains care, and the tenderness it takes to keep hope alive inside bureaucracy. It asks: How do we hold hope when the system keeps breaking…
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The Weight of Softness
Softness is heavy. In this reflection piece, the author writes about the emotional weight of care work — the quiet guilt of boundaries, the culture of burnout, and the struggle to hold compassion in systems that often leave both workers and those seeking care unsupported. “The Weight of Softness” invites readers to consider what it…
Being Human Writing 