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When Someone Threatens to Give You Everything You Said You Wanted

And how to let it happen.

6 min readMar 13, 2023

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Silhouette of a couple on a nighttime rooftop, holding hands and leaning back from each other; she looks as though she may fall if he lets go.

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Please stop reading dating hacks

And take an interest in women as human beings

10 min readDec 8, 2022

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Sign in woods by old truck reading “be yourself everyone else is taken”

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Own Your Attachment Style

And Create Healthier Relationships

5 min readOct 30, 2020

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Own Your Attachment Style

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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Why Releasing Possessions Helps You Think Clearly

And 5 tips to ease you into it

7 min readOct 25, 2020

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Why Releasing Possessions Helps You Think Clearly

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Tumultuous Garden

Your words spoken; a root in my fertile soil. They take hold, grow, expand. Hit my air and sprout wildly in all directions. No longer any…

2 min readMar 26, 2023

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A stalk, thick with many different-sized thorns.

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I’m Sick of the “Appropriate” Version of Me

So I’m expelling it from my life

6 min readMar 22, 2023

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Woman’s image, half blurred, half streaked and pulled outward. Like she is shedding an image.

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Today’s Feelings of Anxiety

Detached.

1 min readMar 13, 2023

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Woman with smeared black eye makeup, holding a notecard with a line smile drawing in front of her mouth.

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The Girl Who Lost Her Way

She adapted; she got smaller and her smile became forced. She pretended to be prettier, smarter, more accepting. Said less. Said yes…

11 min readOct 25, 2022

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Little girl on a stone path, looking after someone she cares for — far off in the shadows.

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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Listening to Your Body’s Signals Can Prevent Heartbreak

Even when your mind is willing to chance it

6 min readOct 28, 2020

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Listening to Your Body’s Signals Can Prevent Heartbreak

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Cultivating Change In Restaurant Pandemic Life

Those of us working in and around the restaurant industry have long known the system was unfairly biased against the little guys. The line…

8 min readOct 13, 2020

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Cultivating Change In Restaurant Pandemic Life

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Rachel Gerk

Rachel Gerk

Ex-chef/cook, current food-lover, equal parts adventurer and stay-at-home introvert, photography enthusiast, and spiritual explorer. Also, cats dig me.

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