I am 37. I have been a healthcare professional for 13 years and I actively work in naturopathic oncology here in the valley. I was a very young mother of my now 20-year old son, Isaiah. He is one of the great lights of my life. My childhood experience left me with some serious abandonment…
What brings you here today? Feeling anxious? Overwhelmed? Unsure what the future holds? Drinking too much coffee? Drinking too much alcohol? Relapsed on cigarettes? Missing your friends? Not sure how to deal with you and your partner working from home? SAME. I asked my cousin, Ashley, the PhD, to sit down and talk with me…
You know when you meet someone, and instantly just feel you’ll have a connection with them forever? Yeah, that wasn’t the case with Tim… he was fine – average, really. Kind of bland personality, real monotone sounding, not funny at all. But then he started really ingratiating himself into the Judd Apatow culture, recalling quotable…
I was about five years old when I pulled at a loose thread dangling from the edge of my underwear. It must have ended somewhere along my vulva because when I tugged to remove it, it tickled the whole way out and I felt a tingling sensation I’d never felt before. I’m not sure I…
It was roughly 2 am when I felt the shame swim through my body like I was slowly being poisoned; I could sense this devastating heat pulse through every fiber of my being as I wiped away the hot tears, my bottom lip quivering. I let the street lights guide my pink and white Vans…
“WHAT DID YOU TAKE!?! WHAT DID YOU TAKE??!!” I heard my mom shouting repeatedly as I woke up in a fog, despite my best efforts to end it all. I’d consumed 350 Advil, 70 Propranolol, a pack of Claritin, and an entire bottle of NyQuil, followed up by two gram-sized dabs of wax, and a…
My name is Tatum Lynn Garcia and I am 27 years old. I was born in Glendale AZ, but I’ve lived all over the Phoenix area and moved to Prescott when I was in 8th grade. I have lived in more houses than I can count; I attended three different elementary schools and two different…
When I got a message from Taylor informing me she was ready to tell her story but needed help telling it, I was excited, then honored, then extremely intimidated, not only because I’d known and loved her brother since elementary school, but because the Yarnell fire that took 19 hotshots will forever be etched into…