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Homegoing
On leaving the city that witnessed the last 11 years of my life.
 • Julia Craven
What Does A Healthy Future Look Like for Me?
After a year of unemployment, I’m tackling the personal aspect of my newsletter’s most political question.
 • Julia Craven
Coming Home to Myself
A public reflection on my 33rd birthday.
 • Julia Craven
Big Beautiful Bullshit
Thoughts on the latest attack on people living in poverty from another hostile presidential administration.
 • Julia Craven
Your Love Island Hot Takes Are Actually Conservative AF
It’s impossible to separate this commentary on women choosing to have sex from the systematic dismantling of health services that disproportionately…
 • Julia Craven
Writing Is Hard When You're Looking For Work
In this week's Friday Post, I talk about how job hunting is a knife in the back of my mental well-being.
 • Julia Craven
Let’s Talk About Why I Love My Oura Ring
A comprehensive answer to one of the questions I’m asked most frequently.
 • Julia Craven
Confessions Of A Burnt-Out Journalist
Field Notes 002
 • Julia Craven
How Do 'Sinners' Heal? Ryan Coogler Has An Idea.
Field Notes 001
 • Julia Craven
Pampering Myself With Healthy Behaviors
What if, in the future, we saw boring, frustrating, but healthy behaviors as an act of softness?
 • Julia Craven
Saying Goodbye To TikTok
Media is a conduit of culture, often informing the framework for how we relate information back and forth. That said, TikTok was a good thing for health…
 • Julia Craven
Sobriety Is the Latest Wellness Trend, and I Don’t Know How To Feel About It
I find it complicated to explain this moment in popular culture within my own life.
 • Julia Craven
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