I recently had a conversation with someone I had not talked to in a long while. I was feeling particularly unenthused with my life this…
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Advice Column: Graduation Survival List
This is my last article for this column. I’m graduating from William Jewell College in less than two weeks, and from there I’ll be moving…
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Self-Exploration: When Home is Not Home
As the semester comes to an end, most conversations are about the summer – “What are your plans?” “Are you going to work?” “Any fun…
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Self-Exploration: My love letter to pursuing seminary
I’ve written an angry version of this article, months ago. I’ve thought a lot about this ongoing conversation I’ve involved myself in between my queerness…
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Self-Exploration: How to deal with end of the semester stress
This week, I’m going to begin tackling self-care during exam times. I know everyone with a laptop and/or a brain has opinions on how to…
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Self-Exploration: Art Within Self-Help Space
How should we tackle art within the context of self-care or self-help or the art we create for ourselves rather than the world? Art – more…
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Self-Exploration: Generational Anxiety
I’ve gone to the last two William Jewell College CUAt the Movies nights in a row. For me, that’s huge progress. My intrusive thoughts fixate…
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Self-Exploration: Self-reflection is complicated
Considering this column is about self-exploration, it’s probably ironically perfect that I have no idea how to articulate or offer advice for listening to oneself.…
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Self-Exploration: Conversion fever
One of the things I’ve left by the wayside in my wanderings back into religion is the conversion obsession. Of all the things I’ve left…
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