HeyJaredSUBSTANTIAL
Writer. Broadcaster. Explorer of the human experience. Notes on growth, beauty, and becoming - from the inside out.
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Sleep is Medicine. Nobody Told Me. (opens the original)
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For most of my life, sleep was the thing I was best at. Not hosting a tv show. Not on-camera work. Not writing. Sleeping.I was an exceptional sleeper. In high school I was cast as Cinderella, and between scenes I would lie down on the cold theater floor and fall dead asleep. The director had to shout my name to cue me for my scene. Planes, backseats, waiting rooms, none of it mattered. I could drop off in seconds and stay under until morning if I wanted. It’s probably genetic. What a gift to car
The Hardest Thing I Have Ever Done (opens the original)
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Last night was the first night I slept soundly in weeks. I woke to the rain dancing on the roof. The clouds hung suspended over the mountains here at Little Gem Ranch, just outside my window, and my brother AJ was already on the road to the airport, headed home to his family in Indiana.Before he went to bed, we hugged tightly, looked at each other, and said, "We did it.” He gets to board that plane this morning with a true sense of peace. And I think, for the first time in longer than I can name
A Note, and an Ask (opens the original)
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If it’s felt quieter around here lately, you noticed right.Life has been asking something big of me for the past several months and these past few weeks have intensified even more. Some admittedly agonizing things are unfolding in my family right now that need my full presence, and my mom needs me in a way that has to come first. What’s legitimately unbelievable is that there’s suddenly more weight stacked on top of that too. We have just learned of a separate, serious health situation with some
Happy Birthday to Us (opens the original)
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A birthday feels like the perfect time to come back to the keyboard, because a year ago to the day, it’s exactly where I sat.Same date. Same quiet cocktail of reflection and gratitude I wrote about last year. But almost everything else? Different. A year ago, I wrote my very first piece here. I opened this space with only a handful of days of sobriety behind me and no real idea what any of this would become. I just knew I needed somewhere to begin again.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-im
You Shouldn’t Have to Figure Out Your Own Body Alone (opens the original)
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Thank you for baring with my recent shares that haven’t been as bright and shiny as they usually are. I continue to share honestly because it is what it is. The truth of this season of my life. I am needed in ways I didn’t used to be, by people I love, in a chapter nobody hands you a manual for. What do you do when you’re needed to show up in such real ways for others? You take better care of yourself. SUBSTANTIAL by Catt Sadler is a reader-supporte
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