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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?

Emily Maroutian

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

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.

Emily Maroutian

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.

Emily Maroutian

Lived & Learned

A Direct Connection: Why I'm Switching Focus

Apr 3, 2026

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2 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