You sit down to write and nothing comes. Not dramatically — just a gray flatness where something used to be. You close the notebook and tell yourself you'll try again tomorrow.

Most women call this a writing funk. They try harder, make schedules, look for better prompts. But when something doesn't resolve no matter how many tools you throw at it, that's usually not a discipline problem. That's grief. And grief can't be coped away — it has to be felt, and it has to have somewhere to go.

In this piece, I explore the specific kind of grief that lives underneath creative silence in midlife, why it's so hard to name, and what healing writing actually requires.

You're standing in front of the refrigerator, and you cannot decide what to eat for lunch. You're hungry. There's food in there. But something in you has gone very, very quiet, and whatever used to help you know what you wanted isn't answering.

If you have ADHD and you're moving through perimenopause, this probably sounds familiar. The strategies you've relied on your whole life have quietly stopped working. There's a reason for that, and it has nothing to do with failing.

For neurodivergent women navigating a late ADHD or autism diagnosis — often in the same season as perimenopause — the question "which self is actually me?" can feel urgent and exhausting. This essay explores the observer self as an adaptive response, a somatic capacity, and an ancient form of knowing, and offers a different way of holding the multiplicity that midlife tends to surface.

A therapist's honest take on why AI can't replace real therapy — and what the mental health tech industry doesn't want you to know.

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Interview with Diane Evans on KCHW’s live radio show called Artists on the Air where Maggie talks about her own creative history and practices.

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