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  • New Years Reflections and Resolutions

    New Years Reflections and Resolutions

    3-minute read time. Today’s post is short and sweet. Over this break, I have been less focused on my blog due to the holidays and applying to seemingly thousands of internships, but because New Year’s is a time of reflection and resolution, I thought I would break my silence with a small post. Please enjoy.… Read more

  • Animal Hoarding: An Infographic

    Animal Hoarding: An Infographic

    5-minute read time. Today’s post is another attempt at an infographic about one of the heartbreaking symptoms of hoarding disorder, animal and pet hoarding. Read more

  • EMDR Therapy: An Explainer

    EMDR Therapy: An Explainer

    7-minute read time. In one of the podcasts I listened to recently, a fellow adult-child-of-a-hoarder explained that she tried EMDR therapy to help her process some of the trauma of living in a level 5 hoarder house. My first thought was, “What the hell is EMDR therapy?” Let’s get into it. EMDR therapy, otherwise known… Read more

  • Improving the Narrative Around Hoarding, Part 2

    Improving the Narrative Around Hoarding, Part 2
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    10-minute read time. Today’s post is less original than educational. As promised, here is one of the assignments I submitted for one of the writing courses, with the professor’s comments attached so you can see my revision process. Below the file, you’ll find the revised article. If interested, please read it and tell me how… Read more

  • Goat paths

    Goat paths

    7-minute read time. According to a simple Google search, a goat path can be many things. It can be a grassy meadow. Posted about in the Amish Country News, the Goat Path is defined as the unusually shaped piece of land that stretches through some of the most used Amish farmland in the county. Its… Read more

  • Saving the world, one bottle at a time

    Saving the world, one bottle at a time

    7-minute read time. Everyone experiences climate anxiety differently. According to Cornell Health, climate anxiety, also known as eco-anxiety, is the feeling of stress about the effects of climate change on the environment, human health, and ecosystems. With climate anxiety comes a range of symptoms, including intrusive thoughts; feelings of grief, loss, anger, sadness, and guilt;… Read more

  • Hoarding symptoms, but not hoarding disorder

    Hoarding symptoms, but not hoarding disorder
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    9-minute read time. Today’s post only scratches the surface of the elaborate field of mental health disorders and is certainly not the last time I will write about it. In the near future, I plan to publish more definition-based explainers about other mental health conditions that relate to, influence, and have symptoms similar to hoarding… Read more

  • Interview with Matthew

    Interview with Matthew

    22-minute read time. This weekend’s blog post is a lengthier interview that I did with my little brother, Matthew, a few weeks ago. Interviewing a family member who shared the same experiences I did, just with another set of eyes, was insightful. I highly recommend that my fellow children-of-hoarders sit down with their siblings (if… Read more

  • Commentary: Dead Body in the Collyer Mansion

    Commentary: Dead Body in the Collyer Mansion

    8-minute read time. This will be the first part of a series of commentaries on each chapter of the fascinating book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and The Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee. During these informal commentaries, I will list each annotation I noted in the chapter, explaining why I pointed the… Read more

  • Just a few words

    Just a few words

    2-minute read time. Good afternoon, everyone! Today’s post isn’t exactly a post but more of a homework assignment, especially for my fellow children-of-hoarders. Amid finals season and with the winter holidays quickly approaching, I have become more stressed and anxious than usual. With the impending season of giving, I know that I will be receiving… Read more

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