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Wide-Eyed and Unknowing
When We Take the Leap(s)
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River Selby (they/them)
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Fifteen Years Without my Mother
Reflecting on surviving parental suicide and a book that helped me make it through
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River Selby (they/them)
4
What The White Lotus Taught Me About Myself
The Illusion of the Constructed Self
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River Selby (they/them)
1
Yanked Tooth
Regret, acceptance, and staying alive
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River Selby (they/them)
11
Hunger Trigger
Why I'm taking a medication designed for weight loss, and the reasons that conversations surrounding Ozempic and GLP-1 medications must shift.
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River Selby (they/them)
27
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River Selby (they/them)
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Narrative Structure and Point of View in Essay Writing
The Interior Gaze: Week Two
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River Selby (they/them)
The Infinite Well of Capitalistic Wanting and the False Promise of Manifestation
Trauma responses and Embracing Stability
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River Selby (they/them)
17
The Interior Gaze: Six Weeks to Discovery
Calibrating your narrative voice in nonfiction
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River Selby (they/them)
9
Tik Tok Soul Suck
social media is the f*cking devil
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River Selby (they/them)
38
She Spat On Me
On Being Homeless and the "problem" of unhoused people
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River Selby (they/them)
3
"You Don't Seem Autistic"
Processing my sensory processing disorder
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River Selby (they/them)
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