Seven of us around a table at 3 am. One "joke" about the age of consent. Every body at that table did what it knew how to do. This is about the cost of staying silent, and why I'd rather disrupt the peace than silently enable.

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Somewhere between the school supply lists and the calendar filling back up, a lot of us quietly go missing from our own lives. Here's what functional freeze actually is, and why transitions ask more of your nervous system than you'd think.