HeyJaredThe Curated Becoming
Stories and reflections on living deliberately, choosing differently, and becoming who you always felt you were meant to be. Written for the inbox I wish I’d had years ago.
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What It Feels Like to Write (opens the original)
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This past week, I published a piece that made me feel like I was standing completely naked in front of a crowd of people. After I hit 'publish,' wave after wave of anxiety hit me, and I let myself wonder if maybe I'd lost it. I even went so far as to share a bit of it on Facebook, where the handyman I used once in 2015 could see it, along with friends I hadn’t talked to in years, my middle school frenemy, and the mother of five I did jury duty with back in 2019. I imagined all of them seeing my
The Feelings I Thought I Couldn’t Handle (opens the original)
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A Word Before I Dive In:Antidepressants are hardly taboo anymore, and I’ve come to recognize that taking them is nothing to be ashamed of - which is fortunate, considering I’ve spent the better part of my life relying on them. SSRIs were a lifeline for me when I couldn’t pull myself out of a period of depression and anxiety as a teenager that was both immobilizing and scary. Once the medication started to work for me, I was relieved to start feeling like my sixteen-year-old self again. SO reliev
The Art of Finishing a Home (opens the original)
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I tend to loathe seeing any standardized list of “decor essentials”. They feel sterile, boring, and completely counterintuitive to the point of decorating in the first place- creating a house that feels uniquely your own. However, a friend recently called me in a mild panic, needing this very type of list produced for her, so allow me to be a bit of a hypocrite today.She and her husband just moved into a new house in Austin, TX, and are planning to host extended family over Labor Day. But as the
Little Luxuries, Vol. 10 (opens the original)
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If you’re new here, welcome. Sprinkled into my longer-form essays, I write a column called Little Luxuries — now in its tenth installment.The ethos is something I wrote in the very first installment: luxury doesn’t have to mean expensive. To me, it&
How I Approach a New Design Project (opens the original)
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There is no single right way to design a room.That’s probably not the most satisfying thing to hear from an interior designer, but I think it’s true. So much of what we do is learned not from a textbook, but through repetition: seeing thousands of rooms, studying why some work and others don’t, making mistakes, correcting them, and slowly developing an … Read more
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