If you spend even five minutes on social media, you’ll see two trends shaping the cultural mood: clapback culture and main character energy.
On one side, you have the clapback — the stitched video, the snarky caption, the “let me tell you what they did” moment that goes viral because i...
A few days ago, I went for a walk at the lake — one of my favorite places to breathe again. I’ve walked that path for years, and there’s an older woman I always see out there. We’ve never spoken, but every time we pass each other, she gives me the warmest smile and the smallest wave. It’s become ...
Last night in Jiu Jitsu, one of the instructors had us practicing front rolls — my favorite....says no one ever. I know I looked ridiculous. My body was doing everything exc...
“I don’t believe in ‘too late.’ I believe in the quiet, unstoppable truth that as long as you’re alive, you’re still becoming.” — Leslie Noble
There’s a moment in life — sometimes in your thirties, sometimes in your fifties, sometimes much later — when you realize the world has quietly hande...
Over the weekend, I drove down to the Hill Country to visit my friends who recently bought their dream home. Josi and her husband have become the kind of people I now think of as family — the rare ones you could call at midnight, and they’d drive three hours without hesitation. The kind of ...
(Why “freedom” in a relationship isn’t what people think it is)
Before Liz Gilbert ever boarded a plane to Italy, she was on her bathroom floor — knees pulled to her chest, face wet with tears, whispering a prayer she didn’t yet know how to answer. That moment in Eat Pray Love wasn’t about le...
There’s something you’re going to hear me say a million times: love is not enough. A successful relationship is built on skills and behaviors — not just chemistry, not intensity, and not the fantasy that “if we love each other, everything will work itself out.”
Love matters, of course. But...
One of my friends was reading my recent blog — The Myth of the Strong Woman — and she read it out loud to her husband. When she finished, he looked at her and said, “Ask Leslie if she’s going to write something about what men struggle with too.”
So, sir… this one’s for you. (And honestly, for...
I grew up with a mother who embodied the myth of the “strong woman” so completely that I didn’t even realize it was a myth. It was just… life. It was the air we breathed.
My mom endured. She held down a full-time job, raised me and my sister, did all the cooking and cleaning, managed every appoi...
“Love becomes dangerous the moment we start relating to our fantasy instead of the person in front of us.” — Leslie Noble
Magical thinking doesn’t begin in adulthood. It’s planted early, long before we ever date anyone. Many of us grew up on stories where love was a rescue mission, a transfor...
Most of us were never taught what it means to truly live. We were handed a cultural script that is, in many ways, deeply dysfunctional. It tells us that if we hit the right milestones—marriage, home, kids, dogs, career success, financial stability—we will feel fulfilled. We will feel whole. We wi...
A Nervous System Take on a Trend That’s Everywhere**
I’ve always considered myself an ambivert — a little bit of both. I can be perfectly content at home with a book, a blanket, and a quiet room, b...
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