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Healing is not linear | The Hard Pills We Hate to Swallow

Healing is not linear | The Hard Pills We Hate to Swallow

By Breanna Pham April 14, 2025
Healing is not about being perfect or being positive all the time. Healing is about sitting in the mess and still believing — somewhere deep inside — that things can get better.
Emma Hart | Graphic Artist

Happiness is an inside job | The Hard Pills We Hate to Swallow

By Breanna Pham April 8, 2025

A friend once shared something that hit home: “You can’t expect to be happy in a relationship until you’re happy with yourself.”  This truth was hard to swallow.  For years, I searched...

Grace Lodewick | Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (Or Analise): No more silver springs — how to let go and move on from your ex

By Analise Bruno March 30, 2025
Enter the half-joke, half-serious concept of “silver springing” someone. It’s the idea that you and all the love you bring with you are unforgettable — like a ghost that will eternally haunt them.
Emma Hart | Graphic Artist

If you loved ‘The White Lotus,’ here are five other shows to binge

By Ananya Swaroop March 28, 2025
For those who are wondering what to watch next, there are several other gripping shows like “The White Lotus” that share the same theme of sharp wit, layered storytelling and striking visuals. 
Iris Ren | Graphic Artist

I don’t wish you the best

By Daniela Cejudo Curiel November 14, 2024
I would love to be mature and say I wish my ex all the best — but I don’t. I don’t wish him the worst, but I will never wish him the best. 
Iris Ren | Graphic Artist

Boston in music represents a place of personal reflection

By Mandy Donahoe November 5, 2024
The city of Boston sparks creative inspiration. From Transcendentalist poetry to “Good Will Hunting,” the city of Boston has moved artists and creators for decades.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

TikTok’s ‘going back until you hate them’ method | My Heart Will Go On

By Lily Smokler March 26, 2024
TikTok houses what I like to call “BreakupTok,” a trend where users can discuss breakups, share experiences and give advice. As someone who enjoys reading through Pinterest quotes and relating to other people’s experiences, I love “BreakupTok” and how it allows my own experiences to feel heard and seen. 
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

A Room With a View: We can grow from trauma, not in spite of it

By Antonia Lehnert October 14, 2021
Trauma does not have to define us if we choose to use it to our advantage.
praying hands

Workshop in transfuturist prayer emphasizes importance of supportive spaces

By Molly Farrar March 30, 2021
Micah Rosegrant, a part-time CFA senior, led a workshop on “trans affirmative spirituality” Friday.
The Howard Thurman Center hosted its final Student-Faculty Forum of 2020 Thursday, offering participants the chance to discuss the impacts of systemic racism and ethnocentrism. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Final Student-Faculty Forum of 2020 tackles effects of systemic racism

By Isabella Abraham December 4, 2020
The final Student-Faculty Forum of 2020, hosted by the Howard Thurman Center, focused on regeneration and healing from the effects of systemic racism.
WILSHERE: We have to be kinder to ourselves

WILSHERE: We have to be kinder to ourselves

By Meredith Wilshere April 19, 2016

As someone who likes to wake up early and stay up late, late nights can be an interesting time for me. My late nights are saturated with reflecting on the day’s events and writing about them in the diary...

WILSHERE: Teach me how to say goodbye

WILSHERE: Teach me how to say goodbye

By Meredith Wilshere April 3, 2016

It was a physical shock to my system. The guy that I had in the back of my mind, the one with the kind eyes and good manners, has a girlfriend. I was caught off guard when I saw the photo as I passed it...

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