HeyJaredThe Unstuck Journey
Weekly essays for people whose life is working fine on the outside and feels hollow on the inside. Not self-help. Not advice. Just honest thinking that names what you already feel.
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Part: 2 - Who Are You Without Your Status or Job Title? (opens the original)
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This Was Mine to Decide, not Fear's... (opens the original)
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There was a time I couldn’t sit on a trolley, or on the flying fox at some fair, without someone’s hand wrapped around mine the entire way down.That kid is still in me somewhere, because standing on a cliff above the Ganges in Rishikesh, with nothing but a life jacket between me and the river below, was one of the stranger things I’ve done to myself on purpose.I’d tried to outrun this fear before. Paragliding, strapped to an instructor, someone else’s hands on the controls while I hung in the ai
Setting Boundary Isn't the Hard Part (opens the original)
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When the world went into lockdown and work moved into my bedroom, the first weeks felt like relief.There was no commute, no small talk in a hallway which I didn’t choose. It’s just me with my laptop in a closed door.I liked it. I liked being useful even more. I had always been the one who gave 110%, even past the hours anyone was paying me for because I was proud to be at a company that mattered. For me, there was a lot to learn.By the time I noticed, the weekend outings had quietly stopped happ
Performing Fine Isn't the Same as Being Fine (opens the original)
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A while back, Uma and I wrote about ’ALL THAT FADES’ — about how the exhaustion isn’t the change itself, it’s the grip we keep on what’s already gone. That piece settled something. Now, this one, unsettles something because there’s a harder kind of letting go. Not releasing who you were while perf
Why Do You Carry It Alone? (opens the original)
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After I wrote about the habit of saying "All Good and Other Lies", even when you aren't, people started answering in the comments. Honestly, more honestly than I expected. And somewhere in the middle of replying to them, I noticed something uncomfortable..I had asked three different people three different versions of the same question, and I didn't have an answer ready for any of them.I asked one reader which side was harder — the one doing the protecting, or the one never let in. I asked anothe
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