the chakra healing workbook for your inner child

I’m really excited to share my latest project with you! A few months ago, I had a yoga lesson that revealed that the root of a lot of my current …

grad school (!)

hi friends and lovers! Welcome to a personal update post that I’m very excited to be writing! Last week I became a double duck and started my masters program at …

please don’t call me a survivor

content warning: SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE  by amanda swan I flinch when I hear the word survivor. My tummy curls in, and so do my toes. survive: continue to live or exist …

eight yoga poses i didn’t think i could practice in my body

by amanda swan I grew up in the lululemon yogasphere. The era of Bikram and his wannabes, tight pants designed for tiny sizes, and studios brimming with small, duplicate bodies. …

thicker than water

by amanda swan I guess it’s true that you “can’t choose your family,” because my family never chose me. They publicly displayed me. They privately disapproved of me. They constantly …

too chaotic for community: connection in the age of convenience

by amanda swan Trauma is a human experience. There is nothing more universally understood than the dichotomy of pain and pleasure. It is the lifeblood of our experience in this …

i reported, and it sucks (part iii)

content warning: SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE This is the third part of my story of reporting sexual assault to the police in the PNW United States in 2021. The first part of my …

i reported, and it sucks (part ii)

making a police report about my sexual assault content warning: SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE This is the second part of my story of reporting sexual assault to the police in the PNW …

i reported, and it sucks (part i)

making a police report about my sexual assault content warning: SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE It was a warm summer night and I was sitting on my porch wearing a black wrap dress …

little match girl

she was hardly eighteen, this little girl with no guidance who wistfully wandered into an alley all alone looking for love but lured by men of greedy lust, their lecherousness …