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10/19/2026

New Substack is live! Do specific dates hold meaning for you? If so, you're going to want to dive into this.👇🏼

07/22/2026

Turns out, I’m actually good company after all.

07/16/2026

Every newsletter I’ve published on True Belonging so far — all in one place.

If you’re new here: this is where I write about fears, the fawn response, attachment wounds, and the patterns that keep highly sensitive, ambitious people performing “fine” instead of actually feeling connected.

Swipe through the archive (just a preview - way more on my substack) - save the ones that hit, and if something lands — that’s usually a sign it’s worth reading the full piece.

New essays weekly. Link in bio to catch up on anything you missed. :)

07/14/2026

The “divorce memoir” everyone’s talking about isn’t actually about divorce.

I read Strangers by Belle Burden through a clinical lens, and the thing that jumped out on nearly every page wasn’t heartbreak — it was the fawn response. Not people-pleasing. Something older, something your nervous system learned to run on autopilot long before anyone ever broke your heart.

I wrote the full breakdown — what the book reveals about intergenerational patterns, and why “healing” rarely looks as clean as a memoir makes it sound.

📖 Full essay, “Strangers to Who?,” is live tomorrow on my Substack,True Belonging!

Link in Bio 🔗

Save this for later, and tell me below: where does your fawn response show up?

07/10/2026

Damn this finale really pulled at my heart strings all in the best way.

Maybe because of my love for bougie food.

Maybe because of all the chaotic family dynamics that I can’t help but dissect.

Or maybe because of the profound message this beautifully written monologue moved me.

It’s truly a message we all need to hear.

We were never meant to go it alone. It’s that simple.

Say “Yes, Chef” if you agree ☺️

05/19/2026

I’ve been a little quiet over here lately — but this has been sitting with me and I wanted to share it.

When I went back to work at three months postpartum, a friend made a passing comment — “our babies need us” — and I felt it in my body before I even processed it. That specific dread of someone confirming your worst fear out loud.

I was already deep in it. The postpartum fog, the mom guilt, that particular vulnerability of early motherhood where you’re constantly scanning everyone around you for whether you’re doing it right.

I was so wide open that one sentence from someone who meant no harm at all reshaped my entire sense of myself for longer than I’d like to admit.

I think about that moment often — not with anger toward her, but with a lot of tenderness toward the version of me who was carrying so much and had so little protection against the weight of other people’s words during that season of life.

Being a highly sensitive person in a season that asks everything of you is its own kind of hard. I was born absorbing everything, and already questioning whether it was okay to want my career and my own identity separate from being a mother. Her comment felt like a verdict had been reached.

My son is almost 2.5 now and I feel like I’m finally finding my footing — in motherhood, in my ambitions, and in how the two actually coexist. It hasn’t been a straight line, and I work at it every day.

Did anyone else experience something like this? A moment where you felt the tension between who you were before becoming a mom and who you felt like you were supposed to become? I think this is such an important conversation that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough.

So let’s talk about it.👇🏼

P.S. Here’s my Jack at 4 months 🥰

05/07/2026

If I could shout one thing from the rooftops to my fellow highly sensitive women — it’s that you carry something so special, and you don’t even have to try.

For years I thought I was too much. Broken somehow. It made me feel so weak, like I couldn’t handle the world the way everyone else could. Like everyone was getting something I wasn’t.

I eventually went on my own therapy journey. And I came out the other side truly at peace with who I am. Proud of how deeply I feel. Knowing I’m deserving of big things and surrounded by people who genuinely appreciate me.

That’s what I want for you.

The Connected Collective is a group space for highly sensitive, ambitious women who are ready to feel just that — at peace with who they are, deserving of more, and surrounded by women who get it.

Applications open Monday. I would love for you to join us. Link in bio. 🤍

05/03/2026

She’s not hard to love. She’s just never been in the right space.

Every woman who finds The Connected Collective arrives a little differently — different story, different coping style, different reason she finally said yes to herself.

But underneath it all? The same thing. A woman who has spent years being deeply attuned to everyone around her, and almost completely invisible to herself.

If you saw yourself in one of these archetypes, I want you to know: that recognition you just felt? That’s exactly what happens every single week inside this program. A room full of women going — ‘wait, me too.’

You don’t have to keep being the only one who gets it.

The Connected Collective opens for applications May 12. 🔗 Link in bio for the alllll the info.

04/30/2026

You hold it together so well that most people have no idea.

No idea that you rehearsed what you were going to say before sending that voice note. That you apologized for being ‘too much’ — and then secretly resented the people who agreed. That you’ve done the therapy, the journaling, the self-help deep dives… and still feel like the most exhausting person in your relationships.

This isn’t a character flaw. It’s a pattern. And it makes complete sense given what you learned early about what it meant to be ‘too much.’

The Connected Collective is an 8-week virtual group program for highly sensitive, ambitious women who are done white-knuckling their way through relationships alone.

If you checked more than two of these — you’re exactly who I built this for.

Applications open May 12. Link in bio to learn more.

04/27/2026

Hot take: a lot of what we call ‘being a good partner’ is actually fawn response in disguise. Here’s how to tell the difference.

Fawn doesn’t always look like cowering. Sometimes it looks like being the most thoughtful person in the room. The one who always knows what everyone needs. The one who never makes it about herself.

If you consistently feel resentment after ‘being kind,’ exhaustion after ‘showing up,’ or relief — not connection — when conflict ends... that’s worth looking at.

You’re not broken. You just learned that love required self-erasure. And that was never true.

This is the work we do in The Connected Collective — learning to tell the difference between genuine care and the survival strategy you’ve been calling love.

Applications open May 12. Link in bio to get on the waitlist. 🔗

Share this with a friend who needs to untangle this. 👯‍♀️

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