Becoming Wired
Renee PurcaitWhere girlhood meets the science of the self.
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31 Journal Prompts for May 2026
Most of us spend our lives reacting to our phones, to other people, to the version of ourselves we were handed before we were old enough to question it.
The problem is that we move so fast all the time that we never have time to ask, “Is...
Are you protecting a life that is making you miserable?
Earlier this year, I was basically forced to make the decision to take a semester off from college. It would have been the second semester of my junior year.
For the January 2026 version of myself, making this decision was the end of the w...
Your thoughts don't need your permission to become your reality.
By the time you’re convinced of something, your brain has already been working on it for a while, and unfortunately, you’re not fully in charge of your actions anymore.
This is not a comfortable realization.
We like to think we can chang...
Everything you were taught to want was never going to feel like anything
Nobody ever asks you what you want your life to feel like.
They ask what you want to do, what you want to have, what you want to become.
The feeling is supposed to follow. Except it doesn’t.
I was reading The Bell Jar today when Esther G...
You Are Not Who You Think You Are
There’s a particular kind of pain that feels like fact.
You know the sentences. “I’m just not good at that.” “I’m too emotional.” “That’s not really for me.”
They come out casually, the way you’d describe your eye color or your height....
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