You Ate the Cookie (and now you can’t breathe)

You ate the cookie.Just one.Just a bite.Just enough to ruin everything. Your body buzzes —not with joyor fullnessor even regret. With fire. Your face feels puffier by the second.Your thighs press harder into the chair.Your stomach rounds under your shirt like it’s...

Today Could Split Your Life in Half

Mark Conlon,The Great World Race © It’s been a year since I ran a marathon on Antarctic ice; the first of seven during the Great World Race. What a day. What an experience. What always sticks with me, when we think back to big and small, iconic or ordinary...

I Lit the Match: An Update from the Other Side

At the beginning of the year, I felt trapped. Suffocated by a life that looked perfect on paper but left me gasping for air in rooms full of oxygen. Maybe you know the feeling – that urge to burn it all down, being stuck in a golden cage, wanting out but feeling oh so...

The Golden Cage

Have you ever been at a point in your life where you just didn’t know which way to turn? Where all you wanted Have you ever been at a point in your life where you just didn’t know which way to turn? Where all you wanted was for someone to sit you down and tell you...

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