City Girl: CarriEl

Carrie turned moments into meaning and heartbreak into sentences. CarriEl is the part of me that does the same, and the reason this blog exists.

33 Steps

Some health lessons came to me from learning how I actually work, what I can sustain, and how small adjustments create progress.

Girl.

Sometimes we call our friends pretending we need advice, when we really want is confirmation.

I Came Up Laughing

I didn’t panic when I fell into the water. I stayed under for a minute, holding a private underwater strategy meeting. …

Dipping My Toe in the Water

When I’ve felt tension after a conversation, I’ve sometimes tried a softened re-entry instead of naming it directly. Recently, being on the receiving end of that strategy made me pause and reconsider my own patterns.

Valentine’s Day, With Room to Breathe

Valentine’s Day doesn’t arrive as a blank slate. For many of us, it carries memories, comparisons, and expectations formed long before we ever thought to question them.

Really? “Just”?

A reflection on the small word we use to soften ourselves, and what I learned by paying attention to it…