No matter how old you are when it happens to you, there’s absolutely nothing that compares to the total vulnerability you face when you’re widowed, especially if you were true soulmates. You lose the one person in your life that you could always count on in every way. I know…

There’s a song I’ve heard recently by the singer Halsey. If you notice that I’ve mentioned them a lot lately, it’s because I tend to find music that just speaks to me in a particular season of my life. Usually, the artists I like are more obscure; I think this…

This was a big news story this week: an analysis of 17 previous studies on depression found that there was no link between serotonin and depression. I could've told you that as someone who has suffered from depression since early childhood. This calls into question our rationale for treating depression…

This is not where I expected to find myself, seven and a half months after losing my soulmate. I’m entering a period of self-discovery and it feels like everything is new. …

If you’ve read my recent stories about how I’m transforming after my husband’s passing or feeling like I’m finding the magic in the universe, you might have some questions, namely about how I’ve achieved this. It doesn’t just happen by accident. You have to start out from a position of…

I don’t understand what’s happening to me at all. On the one hand, I feel like I am so in love with being alive. To be honest, I don't know if I’ve ever really felt like this before. Sure, I’ve had momentary glimpses of it. I remember riding on the…

I’ve always had an eerie sense of intuition that was dead on. I just knew things in advance that I otherwise had no way of knowing. I can’t explain it at all. I’ve always been pretty scientifically-minded, quick to call bullshit on things that don’t make sense. Once I graduated…

It was on this exact date six months ago that I lost the love of my life. Lots of people refer to their partners as “the love of their life.” But I need to make it clear that J wasn’t just the love of my life — he was my…

I recently had an experience that I really needed: I attended a Halsey concert. It may seem like a small thing, which I guess it was in the bigger scheme of things. They’re not normally the kind of music that I listen to; my music taste usually runs more toward…