Sitemap - 2023 - The Thread with Jenny Smith

When New Years Eve doesn't mean what it used to mean

Could another story be true?

Joy is the most vulnerable emotion

Watching my brother fall in love is healing me

There's nothing in the world like autistic joy

Floodgates

That time I went to a Taylor Swift concert

Love releases

It takes a lot of energy to hide

My body makes all my decisions now

Congratulations! You're autistic.

Beginning again

A Thread Conversation: Julia Frisbie

Running away or moving toward?

That must be really hard

Grateful rage

Dancing around the truth

The terrible beautiful middle

A Thread Conversation: Ama Schroeder

Dancing with the gifts of stability + risk

Fear keeps me closed

Goodbye in the toy aisle

You should be here

The Hill

It's okay to not know yet

Like sand at the beach

No one is coming to save me

A Thread Conversation: Erynne DeVore

loving you

A Thread Conversation: Lara Bolger

I don't think the church wants you to know this

Draft number four

The ground rush is here

We just want someone to understand

The first step

Do you want to be heard, helped, or hugged?

How a group of humans showed me I could begin again

Letting go together

When we can't unsee what we saw

The day I told God to stop loving me

Wild over right

A manifesto for a palms up leader

Secret grief

The lost years

The leap after loss

GPS grief

Selling the house

Trees love to do that for us

Still Here is going on tour!

Stupid birds

Why does the hurt offer such beauty?

She's all yours now

Breaking all over again

Indestructible joy

How grief rearranges a life

Love only multiplies

That's a lot of love

Book Title + Cover Reveal!

Sitting inside the powerlessness

A book is coming on February 21!

What to do when the story we wrote isn't the one we have

Fear keeps dissolving into love