musings by mia

Not everyone believes that life is inherently beautiful. For those of us who have always felt the weight of reality—the pain, the loss, the loneliness—this is about searching for meaning anyway. About finding small moments of beauty, connection, and relief in a life that often feels overwhelming, and learning how to keep going when it doesn’t.

Not good. Not bad. Just human. It’s not that they’re a bad person. It’s that they’re not a better person than you. That distinction matters. Because I don’t like the way we flatten people into moral cartoons. Good person. Bad person. Saint. Monster. (Ok, some of them are…) Life is sloppier than that. Human nature is sloppier than that. There’s that thing people say about grocery carts. Return your cart, you’re a good person. Leave it out, you’re a bad one. Even my husband has

Can We Talk About Ableism in the Wellness Community? Can we talk for a minute about how ableist the wellness community is? Specifically white, cis women wellness spaces? We ladies just can’t seem to give each other a break, can we? It’s bad enough that toxic masculinity and far-right patriarchal systems are constantly reminding us of “our place.” Be quiet. Be small. Be nice. Be polite. Have the babies , even when they were raped into us. Accept the status quo. Now we have wom

What Shakespeare’s “To Be or Not To Be” reveals about passive suicidal thoughts, grief, and the quiet heroism of staying alive.

What is psychological projection? A former therapist reflects on emotional mirroring, vulnerability, ADHD, and why being deeply seen can feel either safe or terrifying.

A raw reflection on white masculinity, privilege, learning, love, and what it means to be “one of the good ones” in a broken system.