relationships | Elyse Hughes Writer

Getting Somewhere

When I first started writing Big Blogs, it was my way of sharing deeper and speaking truer. I’d been doing that in writing my first book,...

Burning Bridges

Sometimes I think back on stories I’ve written, things I’ve shared, and am hit by a panicked wave. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that!...

Do I Exist? | How Social Media Affects Self-Perception

My last Instagram post was on August 23rd. My last email newsletter was July 11th, 2020 — yikes. My last Facebook post was on December...

Why Being Self-Absorbed Is Essential To Self-Caring

Someone recently brought to my attention that there’s a difference between self-care and being self-absorbed. As if I didn’t know, but...

The Great Big Wall (V of V in the Friend Breakup Series)

I hadn’t taken into account how wrong I would feel. For all the things I said, or didn’t. I didn’t feel guilty for the things she wanted...

A New Friend?

For most of my life, friends had come to me. They were just there, in the seat next to me in class, building on banter at countless jobs,...

From What Faded (III of V in the Friend Breakup Series)

One occupational hazard of being friends with entrepreneurs is receiving their email newsletters after you’re no longer friends. The...

The Fallout (II of V in the Friend Breakup Series)

Why does the shit stick? Not the times we listened with our heart wide open to catch the other’s pain . . . stopped everything to be...

It Was Like A Death (I of V in the Friend Breakup Series)

It hurt to think of her, memory still bloated and raw with pain . . . regret. It was like a death, our breakup. I attempted to soften it...