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When Did We Stop Being Bored?
We rarely have to be bored anymore. There’s always something to watch, scroll, listen to, search, buy, or discover. And while technology has given us incredible ways to connect, create, learn, and entertain ourselves, it has also made it possible… Continue reading
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What Actually Belongs to Me?
Caring about someone’s feelings doesn’t mean I have to carry them. There are things that genuinely belong to me: my actions, my words, my choices, my impact, and the responsibility to make things right when I can. But someone else’s… Continue reading
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What If We Stopped Telling People Who They’re Supposed to Be?
Before most of us are old enough to know who we are, we’ve already been given ideas about who we’re supposed to become. Some come from tradition, some from love, some from fear, and some have simply been passed down… Continue reading
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Journal Entry #11 The Space Between Alone and Together
After years of choosing solitude, letting someone in again feels different than I imagined. Dating again isn’t only about getting to know another person. It’s also about discovering who I am now, what parts of my independence I want to… Continue reading
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Journal Entry #10 | The Lie We Keep Showing Up For | Work, Power, and Silence
We don’t always stay because we believe in the work. Sometimes we stay because leaving feels riskier than silence. In this journal entry, I reflect on the quiet agreements we make with systems of power, the emotional cost of endurance,… Continue reading
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Healthcare, a Joke? | When Care Stops Feeling Safe to Need | Living Magic with Juju
What happens when needing care no longer feels safe? When access depends on paperwork, timing, tone, money, and how well you can explain your pain while exhausted? Healthcare, a Joke? explores the quiet ways systems fail people who are too… Continue reading
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The Economy and How It Affects Us All | Circle of Candor | Living Magic with Juju 🦋
The economy isn’t some distant system that only economists or politicians need to worry about. It shows up in our grocery carts, our rent payments, our medical bills, and the quiet calculations we make before saying yes to anything extra.… Continue reading
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The School System: Benefit or Joke? | Circle of Candor | Living Magic with Juju
We’re told school prepares us for the world. But no one talks about what it quietly teaches us to endure. This isn’t an attack on education or the people inside it. It’s a reflection on the systems we grew up… Continue reading
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The Vocabulary We Lost — Circle of Candor | Living Magic with Juju
We’ve started leaning on “I love you” to express emotions we no longer have words for — hurt, fear, gratitude, loneliness, longing. This piece looks at how our emotional vocabulary quietly shrank, how love-language became camouflage for truths we’re afraid… Continue reading
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The Inflation of Love — Circle of Candor | Living Magic with Juju
We live in a culture where “love” shows up everywhere — in conversations, comments, captions, and casual moments. But when the word is used so often that it becomes background noise, its meaning starts to thin. This reflection explores how… Continue reading
