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About The Writer

I am a multidisciplinary creative whose work explores the tension between who we’ve been, who we’re becoming, and the culture shaping us along the way. For six years, I published Weekly Love Letters, a weekly personal essay newsletter that built an engaged community and organically supported my work as a coach and creative entrepreneur. I now publish longer-form personal essays and prose through Notes on Becoming on Substack while expanding into editorial writing.

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Weekly Love Letters

Personal essays published from 2020–2026 exploring creativity, relationships, personal transformation, identity, and the realities of building an unconventional life.

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Essay 01:

Optimization Culture Is Death by 1,000 Papercuts

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Cultural critique of productivity and optimization culture; overstimulation, digital availability, burnout, creative rest, self-perception, and the tension between constant self-improvement and simply being human

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Essay 02:

I Did Everything "Right" and Nothing Happened

Nonlinear career storytelling, creative identity, rejection, professional reinvention, questioning inherited definitions of success, the tension between competence and outgrowing a career path

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Essay 03:

It’s Tough Out Here Being a Baddie

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Cultural commentary, generational pressure, modern adulthood, economic uncertainty, ambition, humor, contemporary voice

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Essay 04:

Peace Is the Sweetest Victory

Emotional storytelling, breakup/betrayal, self-regulation, intimacy, turning a specific experience into a broader insight

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Notes on Becoming

A messy corner of unpolished writing, personal essays, and romantic reflections as a creative entrepreneur. 

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The Versions of Ourselves We Don't Return To

A memory piece about light, loss, and becoming

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