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Your Body Is Not an App
A sharp and human essay about wellness tech, sleep scores, and the quiet rebellion of trusting your own body more than an algorithm.
 • Heather Honold
The Art of Productive Procrastination
We spend hours making dashboards, cleaning cabinets, or reorganizing instead of facing the real work. Sometimes it soothes us. Sometimes it shields us…
 • Heather Honold
How to Cope When You’re Always the One Caring for Others
You give so much of yourself. But who holds you while you’re holding everyone else? This post explores rituals, reflections, and ways to care for…
 • Heather Honold
The Quiet That Makes You Panic
When you’ve lived in fight-or-flight for years, stillness can feel more dangerous than the grind. Here’s why — and how to make peace with it.
 • Heather Honold
What If Healing Doesn’t Look Like Forgiveness?
Because for some of us, it never will.
 • Heather Honold
Imagine Living for 500 Years
Imagine a 500-year life not as a legacy project, but as a return to the earth. This essay is a grounding spell for anyone longing to live more fully.
 • Heather Honold
Stop Calling It a Comeback (You Never Rested)
You’re not a phoenix. You’re a person. And maybe this time, you don’t need to rise. You need to rest. This grounded post unpacks the myth of resilience…
 • Heather Honold
When Pushing Through Becomes the Problem
For decades, I believed pain was something to push through. I didn’t realize how many stories I was carrying—about strength, worth, and what it means to…
 • Heather Honold
How I Set Boundaries Without Apologizing (Anymore)
How to Set Boundaries Without Apologizing: Scripts, Tools, and the Cost of Waiting Too Long
 • Heather Honold
I’ll Just Do It Myself: On Control, Care, and the Need to Be Needed
What we miss when we take over instead of teach
 • Heather Honold
A Love Letter to the Ones Who Keep Going
For the ones holding it all together—quietly, constantly, invisibly. You are seen. You are sacred. And you don’t have to do it all.
 • Heather Honold
No, You Don’t Need to Be a ‘High Vibe’ Unicorn to Be Worthy of Healing
A sacred eye roll at toxic positivity and a love letter to your grief, your rage, and the healing that doesn’t sparkle on command.
 • Heather Honold
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