Category: Creative Writing
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What It Actually Costs to Care for Someone You Love

The question nobody asks family caregivers If you ask someone what a nurse’s job is worth, they can tell you. Ask what a home health aide earns per hour, and there’s a number for that too. But ask what it’s worth when a daughter manages her mother’s medications, drives her to three specialists a month,…
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Who Is Sela For? Why a Caregiving App Isn’t Just for Caregivers

Sela isn’t just for caregivers. See how this caregiving app tracks medications, appointments, and pain differently than health apps like Samsung Health.
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The Sorted Details of My Why

(Nothing Actually Sorted About It) I’ve been talking about Sela for a while now on my socials. What it does, who it’s for, why it matters. But I realized recently that I’ve never actually told you where it came from. Not the founder version. The real version. The one that starts long before I ever…
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Family Caregiver Burnout: The Invisible Cognitive Load Nobody Talks About

If you track medications, refills, and doctor preferences for a loved one, you’re already doing a full-time job. Here’s why that’s exhausting — and how Sela helps.
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My Honest 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Review — School Yoga Institute Peru

An honest, personal review of the School Yoga Institute 300hr Ayurveda YTT at Munay Sonqo in Peru’s Sacred Valley, led by Anita Sundaram and Raquel Bueno — and why it genuinely changed me
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The Long Way Back

The long way back to yourself looks like uncertainty. Mistrust of your instincts. It looks like outgrowing the things you used to be passionate about and not having grown into new passions. It looks like dark nights of the soul acknowledging shame-filled truths and accepting hateful realities. It looks like searching for pockets of joy…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

I Made It to 42. That sentence alone deserves a standing ovation, a moment of stillness and all of the accolades and bougie snacks. Not because I thought I wouldn’t make it—but because there were seasons when I didn’t want to. Moments when the weight of disappointment, grief, fear, and survival felt louder than joy.…
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Rest Easy Grandpa

My grandpa died on May 18th, 2025. He was 99 years old. He would have turned 100 on August 31. My grandpa died and I don’t know how I Feel. Well…no…it’s more like I feel so many things. I feel so angry that I didn’t come out here when I first had the inkling. I…

