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elyse hughes
Dec 5, 20218 min read
Why Being Self-Absorbed Is Essential To Self-Caring
Someone recently brought to my attention that there’s a difference between self-care and being self-absorbed. As if I didn’t know, but...
elyse hughes
Nov 29, 20219 min read
Beanbag Mornings
I sat on the oversized beanbag that filled our living room beyond max capacity, and plopped a square velvet pillow in the diamond of my...
elyse hughes
Nov 19, 20216 min read
On Writing, Surviving Stuckness & Living Lighter
I was convinced that I could write my way out of this. The broke years, inner angst and fear of living. The self-doubt, coping mechanisms...
elyse hughes
Nov 14, 20215 min read
This Simple Life
As I snuggled under a happily matted fleece throw, tea lights glowing amber, fall air sifting through the screens, crisp and burnt — I...
elyse hughes
Nov 7, 20215 min read
The Great Big Wall (V of V in the Friend Breakup Series)
I hadn’t taken into account how wrong I would feel. For all the things I said, or didn’t. I didn’t feel guilty for the things she wanted...
elyse hughes
Nov 6, 20213 min read
Sharing, Showing Up & Learning To Live In The Virtual Age
Scratch that. Start over. What can I say? I’m too in my head and I know it. Thinking of who will read this and what they’ll think. I need...
elyse hughes
Oct 29, 20215 min read
Over It Then In It (IV of V in the Friend Breakup Series)
I had a dream that she was telling me off. Then telling me off some more. Securing the last word, yet again. Then the scenery changed to...
elyse hughes
Oct 23, 20215 min read
Cheeseburger In The Dark
I pulled into an empty parking lot outside the closed health food store, sliding into a spot under a tree that cast me in shadow,...
elyse hughes
Oct 15, 20213 min read
These In-Between Times
There are days that I wake up sad. Or it sinks in unexpectedly, out of nowhere, for reasons unknown. Everything weighted and bleak, all...
elyse hughes
Oct 14, 20213 min read
A New Friend?
For most of my life, friends had come to me. They were just there, in the seat next to me in class, building on banter at countless jobs,...
elyse hughes
Oct 7, 20213 min read
From What Faded (III of V in the Friend Breakup Series)
One occupational hazard of being friends with entrepreneurs is receiving their email newsletters after you’re no longer friends. The...
elyse hughes
Sep 25, 20214 min read
A Slower Rise
Sometimes I let the nightmares keep me in bed. I’d be lucid, but not in control, allowing turmoil to play out in front of me, scratching...
elyse hughes
Sep 18, 20213 min read
The Fallout (II of V in the Friend Breakup Series)
Why does the shit stick? Not the times we listened with our heart wide open to catch the other’s pain . . . stopped everything to be...
elyse hughes
Aug 22, 20215 min read
It Was Like A Death (I of V in the Friend Breakup Series)
It hurt to think of her, memory still bloated and raw with pain . . . regret. It was like a death, our breakup. I attempted to soften it...
elyse hughes
Aug 20, 20204 min read
A Relaxing Hot Bath
For someone who’s all about self-care, I couldn’t remember the last time I took a bath. After a full day of spiritual workshop with...
elyse hughes
Jul 28, 20203 min read
My First Book
Three years ago, I hit one of my biggest crash-and-burns yet. I was overworking on a million different pursuits that had nothing to do...
elyse hughes
Feb 27, 20203 min read
"Too Much" Authenticity?
As a creative whose brand is storytelling inspired by my very own life, I fear judgement. If I’m honest about the lows, depression,...
elyse hughes
Nov 4, 20193 min read
I'm An HSP
Every damn day felt like starting over. My collection of crap habits was as extensive as the library in Beauty and the Beast. I had so...
elyse hughes
Oct 31, 20194 min read
How I Spend My Holidays
It was Halloween. At 4:35 pm, as the sun melted through the silhouette mesh of the mesquite canopy and my surroundings cooled into the...
elyse hughes
Sep 14, 20192 min read
The Things I'd Like To Say
I’d like to say to you, the things I’d like to say to myself. You are worthy of a great life, regardless of what you’ve done, or haven’t...
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