Grounded



Creative writings, musings, Essays, Poems, Blog posts, Short stories, & Other things

  • Lessons from Building a Caregiving App from Scratch

    Solo founder and PM-turned-builder Romneka Guion on two weeks of heads-down building, bootstrapping without funding, and the gap between knowing something in your gut and being able to prove it.

  • You’ve Been Paying Attention. So Why Can’t You Answer?

    You’ve been there for every hard night, every medication change, every moment when the pain was a lot and there was nothing to do except show up. And when the doctor asks how she’s been, what comes out is “she’s been okay. Last week was hard.” That moment is not a memory problem. It’s not…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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…

  • I’ll Go By Myself — And Honestly? I’m Finally Over It

    Solo dining, solo travel, solo everything — the prayer my little queer heart sang and what it actually cost me. I woke up this morning thinking about this song we used to sing in my grandpa’s church. It was always lead by my cousin who had the most beautiful voice. The lyrics were: “I’ll go,…

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