Category: Personal
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All I Needed Was A Break
Stressed for months, I finally took some time for myself. I couldn’t believe the effect just one break had on my entire life.
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The Children’s Books We Really Need
Why books like the “Velveteen Rabbit” can teach us that education is overrated and crying is severely underrated.
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The World Was Never Safe
A journey from safety to trauma to more trauma, and how it helped me understand the world had never been the safe or good place I had been told it was.
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My Desperate Road To Normalcy
All my life, all I ever wanted was for people to think I was normal. It just never seemed to work.
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Puncture Your Reality
How I was forced to face the fact that I was living in a bubble, the moments that punctured it, and why those punctures ended up affecting my life so deeply.
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My Daughter’s Holy Musings
What talks with my daughter taught me about belief, trust, love… and ultimately, myself.
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Why I Blocked You
You’re outraged and upset. You’ve been blocked. Here’s why. And why you should be blocking others as well.
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Stop Using Mental Health To Avoid The Real Problems
Your attempts to make shootings like the one in Orlando about mental health are just to avoid uncomfortable realities.
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What Comedy Taught Me About Race And Politics
To me, race and politics always seemed like such gimmicky, easy topics in standup. And then I tried doing standup myself, and it completely changed my mind.
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When It Is Our Friends Who Are Depressed
It is one thing to live with our own depression. It is quite another to be around those who are suffering from it.