Ideas
Writing for the part of you that keeps working when no one is watching
Essays on self-contact, rest, anxiety, the body, and the quiet cost of being reliable.
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- Functioning & Feeling
Is This Still the Mountain I Want to Climb?
We carry an invisible dashboard for adulthood and personality alike — but people are not software, and not every uncomfortable feeling is a bug to fix.
September 20265 min read - Work & Identity
If Rest Has to Be Productive
When even stillness gets measured by what it enables afterward, rest quietly stops being rest and starts being another item on the list.
September 20266 min read - Movement & Reflection
Psychology in Motion
What years of walking have made me curious about: what happens to our attention, our conversations, and our inner experience when the body begins to move.
August 20268 min read
A place to pause
Ascent publishes when there is something worth taking time with.
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