feeling thirtyish

Halima

Welcome to feeling thirtyish

Honest.
Unfiltered.Very real life.

A friend who actually tells the truth.

The Life
Personal essays The Life Real stories. Hard days. Good ones too.
The Healing
Wellness & ritual The Healing Ancestral wisdom meets modern health.
Soft Notes
Reflection Soft Notes The quiet things worth saying.
  • On Adult Friendships
    Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about friendships and about how my relationship with them has shifted as I’ve gotten older. I’m someone who has moved around my whole life. Growing up in a military family meant a new city every two years. By…
  • 37
    Nobody talks about birthday sadness. Not really. We just wake up, feel it, and assume something is wrong with us. Birthdays used to feel like a test I hadn’t studied for. Like the whole day was supposed to prove something .. that I was…
  • I had to leave my baby for a week.
    I almost didn’t go. Here’s what happened when I left my baby for a week and flew to Lisbon for work.
Halima

Meet Halima

New mom.
Tech worker.
Work in progress.

I started this because I needed a space that felt honest. Real conversations about health, work, the hard days and the quietly good ones. The kind of thing you’d talk about with a friend over coffee — the one who tells you the truth and still makes you feel like you’ve got this.

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