Serving a Nation That Does Not Serve Us: A Federal Worker's Reflection

We are seeing a system that is meant to be of service become a system that serves only itself.

Olivia GaughranFebruary 26, 2025Veterans healthcare, VA research, federal workers, military service, government bureaucracy, American Veterans Comments

Our Existential Call to Witness Each Others Suffering

Beholding someone’s deepest pain throws a wrench in our plans. It is an embodied, time-consuming, transformative process.

Most PopularOlivia GaughranMay 21, 2021pain, suffering, joy, happiness, well-being, grief, grieving, existence Comments

Struggling With An Addiction to Chaos & How I Choose Worthiness

I believed in my heart that it was love. I know now it was the addiction of feeling loved, wanted, desirable – the addiction of codependence, an obsession with chaos.

Olivia GaughranJuly 16, 2019boyfriend, ex boyfriend, relationshipsComment

Exhaustion

I am drained and fulfilled and overwhelmed and thriving and fighting back tears and laughing, all at once.

relationshipOlivia GaughranOctober 1, 2018 Comment

Falling in Love With Emotional Nakedness

That year left me feeling hollowed out, gutted, and scraped violently bare.

relationshipOlivia GaughranAugust 25, 2018Comment

Untangling The War & Moving Forward From Betrayal

It’s time to unshackle your hurt and call off the war. It has been too long.

Olivia GaughranJuly 15, 2018Comment

Longing For Connection & Bridging The Gap

We are terrified that we aren’t important or necessary. We are longing for one another.

Olivia GaughranMay 31, 2018 Comments

Intense Rejection and Emotional Budgeting: The Beginning

Emotional budgeting strips away the things most necessary for wholehearted living.

Most PopularOlivia GaughranMarch 25, 2018shame, rejection, relationships, relationship, boyfriend, girlfriend, breakup, heartbreak, healing, vulnerability, self care, the importance of self care Comments

If The Months Were Sisters: A Poem

A twisted kind of romance.

Olivia GaughranMarch 1, 2018sisters, siblings, love, twisted, heartbreak, broken, broken up, lost, losing yourself, finding yourself, soul, soul searching, poetry, slam poetry

There Is A Difference Between A Fight and an Argument

Think about changing the way you disagree with your partner.

Losing Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

We grow together and we grow apart.

Olivia GaughranFebruary 26, 2018love, young love, relationships, boyfriend, girlfriend, loss, sadness, grief, coping, depression, heartbreak, broken, the importance of self care, self care, losing yourself, thank you, breakup, in loveComment

The Dark

there is no great joy without great pain,

no self-awareness without self-compassion.

explore the dark, unafraid.