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CW/TW: eating disorders, body image issues, etc. I am currently in the middle of a very intense therapy journey exploring long held issues with food, control, and an untreated eating disorder I had as a child. All of this therapy work has inspired dozens of pages worth of writing, and this piece is the result… Continue reading The adults who responded inappropriately to my eating disorder

Merry Holiday Shopping to one and all, my sweet shoppers! I have missed you so much since we last came together to celebrate Christmas and Capitalism and chat about the products that I think are (1) the best and (2) would probably end up making pretty good gifts. As I mentioned last year, I’m slightly… Continue reading Shannon’s Favorite Things 2022

It’s the middle of the night a few nights before I turn 30 and I’m frantically trying to finish some sort of magnum opus that expounds on the profundity of the moment. In my millions of drafts of this, I managed to identify the root cause of pain surrounding a friendship that ended years and… Continue reading What a gift it is

I was a painfully shy kid. Like, so shy I didn’t speak to my aunts or uncles or piano teacher or most of the kids at my preschool, shy. But when I was at home with my parents and brother, or at my best friend’s house, I was loud and happy and boisterous, and when… Continue reading We need to stop scapegoating mental illness