The In-Between

It’s a new month. February. And the blank page in my journal starts with one word: Dear. 

This year, I’m not writing goals. I’m writing intentions — not as a performance, not as discipline, but as an experiment in falling back in love with life. This piece explores why intention-setting works when willpower doesn’t, what neuroscience tells us about burnout and recovery, and how choosing curiosity over perfection might be the most radical form of self-care we have.

An unexpected connection can rearrange us in quiet, unmistakable ways. Loving someone more than we intended isn’t a mistake — it’s a sign of emotional vitality. This piece explores how openness, timing and self-trust shape the stories we tell ourselves, and why caring deeply remains one of the most mature acts we commit to as human beings.

Desire has a way of finding us in inconvenient places — in friendship, in familiarity, in the quiet ache of what we can’t have. But wanting isn’t the same as doing. It’s a mirror: showing us who we are, what we crave and the courage it takes to feel something we may never act on.