Burnout has become almost normalized in society today. People joke about being exhausted, overwhelmed, emotionally drained – running on caffeine and survival mode like it’s just part of modern life. We praise productivity, overworking, and being “booked and busy,” even when people are quietly unraveling underneath it all. Here’s the truth: burnout is more than just being tired. Burnout usually doesn’t show up all at once. It creeps in slowly. You stop feeling excited about things you once...

Recently, I’ve noticed so many of us have been feeling nostalgic - a pull backward, a longing for a simpler time. We hear it in conversations, see it on social media, and notice it reflected more and more in TV and film. There’s a collective desire to go back in time, to remember who we used to be… before constant notifications, before algorithms, before our attention became something to be captured and consumed. Before, life felt like it was happening through a screen. While we can’t go...

Lately, many women I speak with are not just tired, they’re outraged, disgusted, and fed up. There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from watching women’s accomplishments minimized, while men with less merit are elevated and celebrated. From seeing accountability stall. From witnessing misogynistic rhetoric that diminishes women and then gets laughed off as harmless. From seeing predators protected while women are forced to answer and suffer the consequences. It’s not only...