
Instructions Unclear: What a Crisis Hotline Taught Me About Helping People
A cracked phone screen? Replace it. A messy room? Organize it. A bad haircut? Pretend it never happened and wait three months for it to

Cast as the Villain ( Teen’s Journey from High School Drama to Radical Resilience)
If you’ve ever felt like your life shifted overnight from a comforting, predictable story to a chaotic movie you didn’t sign up for, don’t worry—so

I Thought I Couldn’t Keep Up- But I Just Didn’t Know How to Deal With It
My Story: I remember staring at my homework late one night, knowing I still had hours of work left and a zero-period math class waiting

Not Indian Enough: The Missing Generation
Where Am I From? Growing up people often ask, “where are you from?” The answer was simple to me: California. I was born in California,

Over-cautious, overthinking and over-catastrophizing:The slippery slope of anxiety
A reverberating heart that is a little too loud, limbs that are immobile as if bound by force, a brain that is freeze-frame, a mind

Fake it till you make it – or so you think
“It’s ok to not be ok” – Micheal Clifford It was 8am in the morning again when I put on an invisible mask of happiness

Beyond the Quick Fix: Why We Don’t Have to Carry the Weight Alone
A Teen’s story on navigating masculinity, anxiety, and Highschool burnout. We live in a culture obsessed with quick fixes. A cracked phone screen? Replace it.

“I wish I were more like her.”
Struggling with Comparison Culture as a South Asian Adolescent An Invisible Weight It started in school, then it followed me everywhere I went. Every day,

Beyond Appearances
My Experience With Domestic Violence and Cultural Stigma in the South Asian Community I never imagined I would lose almost all my neighbors and friends