Amy Slanger

Everyone Is Healing. No One Is Accountable

Or: how therapy language became the most polite way to disappear

January 14, 2026 · 370 words

Cats

My Cat Ran Away and I’m Supposed to Pretend This Isn’t About Men

On trauma, tenderness, and the urge to flee from being loved

January 6, 2026 · 855 words

Faith

Terminal Lucidity

Moments when clarity arrives just before we let go

December 31, 2025 · 833 words

Nothing Exploded

2025: The Year I Didn’t Win, I Just Didn’t Lose.

December 23, 2025 · 689 words

A Letter to My Ancestors

I Have Issues and It’s Your Fault.

December 17, 2025 · 1,152 words

I Healed So Hard, Now Life Is Boring Me

An essay about recovery, boredom, and missing the chaos that explained me

December 11, 2025 · 1,064 words

Why Does He Do That? In Present Tense.

A hyperventilating book review addressed directly to Mr. Lundy Bancroft

December 10, 2025 · 893 words

Why I Stare Into Space Like I’m in Love (I’m Not. It’s a Board Meeting.)

Here’s my mess. It’s funny. Maybe your mess is funny too.

December 9, 2025 · 964 words

Annual Performance Review in December

My DNA Is 70% Human, 20% Hibernating Bear and I am still figuring remaining 10%

December 8, 2025 · 902 words

Why I Judge People Who Run Marathons

Run your marathons. I’ll run my mouth

December 5, 2025 · 1,017 words

Why Overthinkers Would Survive the Apocalypse

And make even the zombies reconsider their life choices.

December 5, 2025 · 910 words

The Schrödinger’s Burnout: Alive, Dead, and Still Showing Up to Work Like an Idiot

A darkly scientific love letter to everyone functioning on vibes, trauma, and caffeine.

December 4, 2025 · 1,099 words

Dreams

If He’s Not In Your Dreams, Your Subconscious Has Already Dumped Him

A neuroscientific love letter to your subconscious, the only part of you with taste.

November 26, 2025 · 1,274 words

The Ghosts We Inherited

Understanding the science behind our suffering and why Indians need to talk about mental health like it’s human, not haunted.

November 26, 2025 · 1,334 words

My Trauma with the Kitchen

The science behind fear and the memories that still live in the body.

November 21, 2025 · 646 words

Cats

The Tick in My Ceiling Fan

A tiny noise kept me awake for years.

November 20, 2025 · 1,034 words

Bedtime Story

A scientifically accurate breakdown of why your “random” life is actually just physics showing off, hopefully will make you go to sleep.

November 16, 2025 · 802 words

Motherhood

My First Ever Kissing Scene

Brought to me by stealing cable and a few unfortunate moments from my innocent life.

November 12, 2025 · 871 words

To the Men Who Wanted to Fix Me

Keep your advice, your ego, and your finger, I know where you can put them

November 12, 2025 · 740 words

Productivity, but Make It Trauma

When ambition is just anxiety with a LinkedIn profile.

November 5, 2025 · 585 words

The Rings Beneath Our Skin

Growth doesn’t mean forgetting, it means becoming.

October 28, 2025 · 820 words

The Day I Stopped Chasing the Sun

On losing everything I thought mattered, and finding something quieter that did.

October 27, 2025 · 909 words

The Good Girl’s Bad Guide to Accepting the Love She Deserves

A survival manual for women who’ve done their time in emotional rehab.

October 27, 2025 · 650 words

How to Have a Nervous Breakdown Gracefully

A self-help guide for those who like their despair well-lit.

October 17, 2025 · 324 words

My Toxic Trait Is Thinking I Can Emotionally Project-Manage My Life

a confession from someone who keeps adding “healing” to her to-do list

October 16, 2025 · 961 words

Dreams

Universal Consciousness, Explained Badly (But Honestly)

Symbols don’t sit quietly in dictionaries. They float like waves until we look at them, collapsing into fear, healing, or divinity.

October 13, 2025 · 712 words

The Universe Has Boundary Issues

I dated her once. She called it divine timing; I call it emotional negligence.

October 13, 2025 · 802 words

How to Survive a Spiritual Awakening Without Becoming Insufferable

Lessons from My Third Eye, Now Available in HD

October 9, 2025 · 516 words

Myself

A reflection on the I that reads, feels, and observes.

October 8, 2025 · 1,237 words

The Girl Who Read to Stay Alive

On books, belonging, and the strangers who save us. Finding tenderness, one secondhand book at a time.

October 5, 2025 · 965 words

The Male Anatomy at 3 a.m.

Insomnia doesn’t let me forget that every part of a man is both invitation and denial.

October 2, 2025 · 839 words

PTSD Disguised as Scripture

On how trauma is retold until it becomes prophecy, and why survival has always needed stories.

September 24, 2025 · 564 words

Family

Guilt, My Most Loyal Pet

Forget cats and dogs. The only pet that outlives you is guilt.

September 21, 2025 · 800 words

Travel

The Geometry of Madness

Why Delhi’s railway station, like the Nazca lines, proves chaos is just precision we can’t yet understand.

September 18, 2025 · 775 words

Humor

Me vs. Jupiter

A gas giant spins on hydrogen; I spin on trauma. Both of us storms, just wrapped differently.

September 12, 2025 · 831 words

Humor

An Obituary for the Man Who Carried Too Much. My Tau Mamu

A tribute to my favorite guy: Tau mamu filled my childhood with mangoes, laughter, and safety, yet fought a silent war that ended in…

September 10, 2025 · 513 words

Humor

The Aftertastes of Laughter

Laughter doesn’t always heal. Sometimes it stings, sometimes it saves, sometimes it just misbehaves.

September 10, 2025 · 608 words

Congratulations! You’ve Won Trauma for Life

Love-bombing feels less romance and more a spam text: Congratulations! You’ve won trauma for life. And yes, I clicked.

August 27, 2025 · 434 words

The Sleep-Deprived Manifesto of a Woman Who Knows Everything and Still Checks Her Horoscope Twice

Because control is a myth, and I’ve got the color-coded breakdown to prove it.

August 22, 2025 · 403 words

When Mental Illness RSVP’d Yes

Depression slumped in, Anxiety barged in, and Imposter Syndrome came dressed to impress. Dinner was doomed from the start.

August 11, 2025 · 731 words

Motherhood

How to Survive Life Without Thriving

A memoir for anyone whose coping mechanisms have their own coping mechanisms

August 3, 2025 · 673 words

Egyptian Cotton, Vikings Tragedy

How I bled through five-star linen, broke a glass, drank betrayal, and laughed like trauma owed me rent.

August 1, 2025 · 480 words

Thoughts from a Very Ordinary Day

Mercury retrograde. Murphy’s law. Me.

July 23, 2025 · 436 words