HeyJaredThe Ordinary Woman In Me
Lifelong creative trapped in the body of an overachieving people pleaser. In this space I share the life and times of my journey to discover and live out loud in my authentic self.
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- Sep 25, 2026
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The Courtroom (opens the original)
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The courtroom is cold. Not the kind of cold you register, but the kind that settles into your spine before you realize you’re bracing against it. You pull your blazer tighter, though it doesn’t help much. You are seven months pregnant, the only woman in the prosecutor’s office, and the only one assigned certain cases.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1589994965851-a8f479c573a9?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJj
The Madness Within (opens the original)
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A Letter to Belle Burden (opens the original)
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The Orange Suit (opens the original)
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I’m Becoming My Mother (opens the original)
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My favorite thing about midlife so far is that when I look in the mirror, I see my mom.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dJ97!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F
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