Tag: healing

• What Friendship Means to Me

  

  This was a hard one for me. When I reach a space that is difficult to explore, I have a tendency to intellectualize my way through it. This allows me to detach myself from the idea, treating it as though it were something I was watching on TV, or a book written by someone else…

  Robert Hiraeth

  20th June 2026

  Prompts

  addiction recovery, emotional honesty, friendship, growth, healing, intimacy, mental health, personal essay, recovery, relationships, self-love, self-worth, sobriety, trauma, vulnerability

• To those thinking of giving up

  I spent Christmas day watching a marathon of Anthony Bourdain specials. An imperfect, broken hero of mine. He took his own life and the world is poorer for it. I don’t judge him for his final action, any more than I would judge any one person for any one action in the vast tapestry of…

  Robert Hiraeth

  26th December 2025

  Essays & Reflections

  Anthony Bourdain, community, compassion, connection, depression, don’t give up, encouragement, existentialism, grief, healing, hope, keep going, life is worth living, loneliness, meaning, mental health, perspective, reaching out, solidarity, suicide prevention, support, tapestry of life, universal experience, you are not alone