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

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

Written & Bound

Excerpt: Belonging Without Becoming the Same

Apr 10, 2026

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4 min read

Excerpt: Belonging Without Becoming the Same

I want to share an excerpt I wrote years ago for a now-abandoned book titled Notes to My Younger Self. I wanted my younger self to understand why she felt out of place in spaces that were meant to feel like home. I didn’t have the language for it then, only the experience of it.

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Pondering & Wandering

Living in The Tension Between Certainty and Freedom

Apr 8, 2026

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5 min read

Living in The Tension Between Certainty and Freedom

There’s one part of me that wants to know exactly where I’m going. Not just the direction, but the outcome. I want the guarantee. I want the quiet reassurance that if I take this step, it will lead somewhere meaningful, somewhere safe, somewhere right.

Emily Maroutian

Written & Bound

Quote Expansion: The Movement Toward Something...

Apr 4, 2026

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3 min read

Quote Expansion: The Movement Toward Something...

The Expansion: What we often resist isn’t the loss itself, but the meaning we give it. We tell ourselves that if something is ending, it must be a loss. But endings aren’t always an act of removal. Sometimes they are acts of release.

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Lived & Learned

A Direct Connection: Why I'm Switching Focus

Apr 3, 2026

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4 min read

A Direct Connection: Why I'm Switching Focus

For years, I built my home on Instagram. I started there before I had the courage to share my own words. I was posting other people’s quotes until I finally trusted my voice, my own work enough to let it come through.

Emily Maroutian