About

Resilience Rising is a place to think honestly about the harder, quieter parts of being a person, and to not have to do it alone.

Most of us are carrying something. For some it's loud; for some it barely has a name, a life that looks fine from the outside and doesn't quite feel that way from the inside. Wherever you are with yours, the point of this place is simple: to put words to it, so it feels a little less like something you're facing by yourself.

That's what the writing is for. Essays and ideas about resilience, and about the ordinary, unglamorous work of steadying yourself and deciding where to go from here. Just an honest company for the thinking, and the sense, underneath it, that things can move.

The belief I keep coming back to is that peace isn't really a state of your life; it's a state of your mind, something you build in how you meet what comes. I've watched people find their way toward it from good days and from very bad ones, and I've come to trust the way is usually there, even when it can't be seen yet. Who's behind this can wait; the writing comes first.

You're welcome here, whoever you are and however you arrived. New writing lands on this page first. Stay and read, or let it come to you.