HeyJaredJessica Guerrieri
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- Aug 13, 2026
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- Jul 9, 2026
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Holding Two Truths at Once (opens the original)
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I keep coming back to the same thing: women can hold two truths at once.We can love our children more than anything in the world and still be overwhelmed by motherhood.We can be grateful and struggling.Capable and exhausted.Devoted and desperate for help.We can love the lives we chose and still admit that parts of those lives are breaking us.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rLkh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubst
Chin Up, My Dear (opens the original)
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There is a reason I write women’s fiction.It would be easy to assume it’s because I like writing about motherhood or marriage or addiction or recovery. I do. But more than that, I like writing about women who show up for one another when the world starts convincing them they’re not enough.The world has countless ways of convincing women they’re falling short. Stories remind us that someone else has walked this road before us.Last month, I had set up shop in my car because there is no such thing
Gold Stars for Grown-Ups (opens the original)
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My friends and I have a habit of sending each other pictures of gold star stickers. Whenever one of us spots a sheet at Target or tucked away in the office supply aisle at Staples, someone inevitably snaps a picture and sends it to the group text. It started as a joke about the invisible labor of motherhood, but somewhere along the way it became our shorthand for, I see you. You’re doing a good job.We don’t need to explain it because we’re the keepers of the single socks and the institutional me
What Love Island Taught Me About Marriage (opens the original)
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I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Love Island has somehow become a mirror for my marriage. I know. Believe me, no one is more disappointed in me than I am.If you had told me five years ago that a dating show featuring twenty-three-year-olds with spray tans and the emotional maturity of middle school boys who just discovered Axe body spray would have me reflecting on long-term partnership, I would’ve politely suggested you log off and touch grass. And yet... here we are.<p class="cta-cap
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