HeyJaredLa Forêt Intérieure
Most writing about starting over stops at the leaving. This is about everything after. Working out what you actually want, and slowly becoming someone you recognise. Written from rural France.
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I Thought I Was Further Along Than This (opens the original)
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When You Can't Quite Feel Anything (opens the original)
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There’s a particular kind of difficult that doesn’t look like much from the outside.You’re functioning. You’re getting through the days. But something feels muffled, like there’s a layer of glass between you and your own life. You know you’re supposed to feel things, and maybe you did once, but right now you can’t quite reach them.Sometimes this happens after loss. Sometimes after a long period of stress or change. Sometimes it arrives quietly and you’re not even sure when it started.This medita
My Sister Told Me to Look for Pockets of Joy (opens the original)
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She Thought Her Trauma Wasn't Bad Enough (opens the original)
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Making Friends As An Adult Is Hard. This Might Help. (opens the original)
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Making new friends as an adult is one of those things nobody really warns you about. When we’re younger, friendship tends to happen around us. School, university, work, relationships, children, we find ourselves around the same people, and slowly, almost without noticing, some of them become friends. And then life changes. People move. Relationships end. We leave communities, outgrow places that once felt like home. And suddenly connection doesn’t happen automatically anymore. Maybe you do have
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