In the seventh grade, my best friend, Alecia* decided she wanted to expand her social network. We’d clung to each other’s sides for two years and although I didn’t consider myself a possessive friend, I still feared her venture outside of our little bubble would refine a truth about myself I thought I had...
I’m so excited to say that today I’ll be speaking with Allison Raskin! You might know her as New York Times bestselling author, mental health advocate, co-creator of the Youtube comedy channel and podcast, Just Between Us, and the sole-creator of the 12-part narrative fiction podcast, GOSSIP which immediately hit the worldwide top charts....
In my childhood years, I meandered into the territory of anti-vulnerability. After being informed that my feelings and how I expressed them were an exact representation of my strength, I began to practice the most facile of solutions: I buried them. As much as I naively believed they would, grief, trauma, and unresolved pains...
