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Jemma Jorel
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Aug 5, 2020

A Dangerous Game of Telephone

How we talk ourselves into ignorance and peril — Something about the intensity ripping through the US gives me a vaguely disquieting association with that classic activity from sleepovers of my youth — the game of telephone. One person starts, then we whisper a phrase excitedly down the line. And the longer the better… both in phrase and in…

Knowledge

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A Dangerous Game of Telephone
A Dangerous Game of Telephone
Knowledge

6 min read


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·Aug 5, 2020

Not Knowing Is the Best Part

How sobriety helped me embrace uncertainty — As Medium is want to do, it thrust on me a gorgeous little article on the more subtle changes that accompanied a mom/therapist/painter/writer’s sobriety. She articulated right there in the subtitle something that I’ve found myself appreciating more and more since I stopped drinking. “…but inside, I’m evolving in ways I never expected.” Drinking, the version of me who…

Presence

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Not Knowing Is the Best Part
Not Knowing Is the Best Part
Presence

5 min read


Aug 5, 2020

Reforming My Attachment Style

From anxious-avoidant to secure — I was recently introduced to a theory of human connection called Attachment Theory through Amir Levine & Rachel Heller’s book Attached. Attachment Theory posits that there are 3 main categories of how we intimately relate to each other — secure, avoidant and anxious. Being human requires connection and intimacy, but…

Relationships

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Reforming My Attachment Style
Reforming My Attachment Style
Relationships

7 min read


Aug 5, 2020

Learning to Love Rejection

When it’s good, it’s GOOD — Rejection is not an easy experience. But if we’re doing life right, it is necessary to learn to deliver and receive it. It can be liberating… beautiful, even. Rejection is part of the curating process that allows us to move through life with purpose and confidence. …

Rejection

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Learning to Love Rejection
Learning to Love Rejection
Rejection

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Jul 5, 2020

We’re Doing it Wrong

Living for the future, wasting today — The pandemic is bringing up a great many flaws in the American experiment, like bodies rising to the surface after a deluge. Our disagreements about the merits of individualism leading to a controversial mask debate… our inadequate safety net leaving families without security… our stunted conversations about race and class…

Psychology

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We’re Doing it Wrong
We’re Doing it Wrong
Psychology

4 min read


Apr 30, 2020

No Place Like Home

A newfound respect for home base — There are a thousand insights from this prolonged period of being home-bound. Many of them are related to the concept of home itself — a place usually so familiar its practically ignored — becoming new again as it takes on so many functions over the course of this Shelter-in-Place stretch. …

Psychology

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No Place Like Home
No Place Like Home
Psychology

6 min read


Feb 19, 2020

Things I’ve Learned Teaching Teenagers

They’re just like us — Okay, that’s not entirely true. Teens are a dodgy mixture of immature senses of humor, spongy brains, and twitchy energy in full-grown bodies. I read recently that the part of our brains that understands long-term thinking is still developing in our teens. So they have the strength of adults with…

Education

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Things I’ve Learned Teaching Teenagers
Things I’ve Learned Teaching Teenagers
Education

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Feb 19, 2020

Having Feelings vs. Caring

Spoiler: they are not the same — The people who inhabit our lives are vital. They play an integral role in our quality of life, our behaviors and what we manage to accomplish. It’s important to invest in healthy relationships. …

Emotional Intelligence

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Having Feelings vs. Caring
Having Feelings vs. Caring
Emotional Intelligence

5 min read


Jan 27, 2020

Did Cheerleading Make Me A Better Person?

Squad goals, 20 years later — I was a cheerleader in high school, a phase of my life that feels so distant, I seldom think about it. Its (ostensibly) far removed from my current identity as a fiercely independent professional, self-defense instructor, intersectional feminist writer with a sailor-like vocabulary and a solitary disposition. …

High School

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Did Cheerleading Make Me A Better Person?
Did Cheerleading Make Me A Better Person?
High School

8 min read


Jan 12, 2020

Waiting to Start

When the end takes its time — The finale of 2019 didn’t leave me with a satisfying sense of closure the way past years have. I’m usually rarin’ to review the 12 months prior and set some goals and intentions for the next 12 in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. …

New Years Resolutions

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Waiting to Start
Waiting to Start
New Years Resolutions

4 min read

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Jemma Jorel

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