Are you ghosting yourself?
The quiet epidemic of self-abandonment, and the first steps home
We don’t just get ghosted by others.
We ghost ourselves—slowly disappearing from our own lives in the name of peacekeeping, survival, or belonging.
At some point, we wake up like a ship in fog—adrift, unanchored, barely recognizable.
That’s what this piece, Ghost Ship, is about.
And that’s what we’re here to come back from.
I’ve spoken to so many …