Emily Maroutian

Author of 15+ books on what it means to be human. Still trying to figure it out.

Lived & Learned

What life has taught me through experience.

Pondering & Wandering

Things I’m still thinking through and figuring out.

Written & Bound

My books, quotes, and previously written work.

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Lived & Learned

May 19, 2026

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3 min read

What I Now Know About Healing

For a long time, I wrote about healing from the place I understood it at the time. I wrote about the realizations, the breakthroughs, the inner work, the painful patterns that had to be named before they could be changed.

Emily Maroutian

Written & Bound

Quote Expansion: The Safer Option Can Still Cause Harm

May 8, 2026

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4 min read

Quote Expansion: The Safer Option Can Still Cause Harm

The Expansion: I’ve never really believed in the safer option. Not in the way people usually mean it. Not as a promise. Not as a guarantee. Not as some protected path where nothing can hurt you if you choose correctly enough.

Emily Maroutian

Lived & Learned

How Do You Deal with The Chaos of The World?

Apr 30, 2026

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2 min read

How Do You Deal with The Chaos of The World?

I have been asked this question many times before. As incidents of violence, war, or chaos flood the news stream, someone will usually send me a DM or an email with a question like this: How do you deal with the chaos of the world?

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Pondering & Wandering

Apr 23, 2026

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4 min read

A Quiet Writer in a Loud World

For most of my career, I’ve been able to exist as a writer without needing to be seen personally. The work spoke for me. The ideas carried me forward. The connection happened somewhere distant and quiet, between the page and the reader.

Emily Maroutian

Lived & Learned

What I Needed as a Child, I Built as an Adult

Apr 14, 2026

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5 min read

What I Needed as a Child, I Built as an Adult

For about two decades, I didn’t have the language or the understanding for what I was experiencing in my inner world. I struggled with depression, anxiety, and PTSD since I was an early teen. Those struggles shaped how I saw myself, how I moved through the world, and what I believed was possible for me.

Emily Maroutian

Pondering & Wandering

The Space Before Understanding: Learning to Sit Inside the Unfinished

Apr 12, 2026

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3 min read

The Space Before Understanding: Learning to Sit Inside the Unfinished

For the past few years, I’ve learned that there’s a part of me who doesn’t know how to exist professionally without a lesson to teach. Without a mechanism to explain. Without offering some kind of intellectual value to my reader.

Emily Maroutian