Have you ever been scrolling through LinkedIn and noticed how every job opportunity is touted as the most amazing thing ever!? I went through my feed recently, and here are a few direct quotes I found:

“I have an open position that you're definitely going to want to take a look at! That is, if you're incredibly passionate and ready to look at an exciting new opportunity!

I love the Summer Solstice. It’s the longest day of the year, and it also happens to be right around the time when I started my business three years ago. I think part of the reason why I enjoy the Solstice so much is because it’s an easy way to remember to expand.

A good example of a common taproot is the carrot. A taproot comes out of the carrot seed, bolts down into the earth, and it starts growing. In this particular example, the taproot becomes a large food storage center for the plant, which we pull up and eat as a carrot. If you pull a carrot out of the ground, you’ll see those small lateral roots growing off of it.

As always, the wild has so much to teach us about ourselves, and a question popped into my mind: what if my career was a carrot?

As someone with a lot of privilege, it’s easy to hole up and ignore most of what’s going on until I feel ready to engage with the news. When I choose to look or am confronted by it just by virtue of existing in this world, it’s not long before I’m spiraling out into what-is-the-point-of-all-this-land.

I’ve been dealing with a migraine-like syndrome for years and just realized recently what actually causes it: a sense of inadequacy.

When I was about 8 months pregnant, I had a scary realization: I realized that I would be fundamentally alone in the process of giving birth to my daughter.