High functioning is a label that fails to capture the immense stubbornness, effort, and exhaustion that lies behind my successes.

You all don't hear a lot about my Coffee Me personalities anymore. There's a reason for that. They were a fun and light-hearted way for me to deal with the mental health load I was struggling under; pandemic, toxic home environment, years of destructive political attacks, money worries, increasing anxiety over "everything", and just the general stress of working and owning a business. I was exhausted by the effort to navigate these and yet could not afford to slow down, take