Jessica Freeborn
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I love telling stories that inspire and resonate with readers. Professionally, I'm a health and wellness freelance writer, but here I do a little bit of everything.
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50 Stories Later
50 stories. This is it! I'm finally at story 50. My goal was to hit this by the end of January, and I have. Yay! When I started on Vocal in March of 2021, I wasn't sure what to expect. I wasn't even sure which communities I should publish my work in.
By Jessica Freeborn4 years ago in Journal
Funny, Talented, and Confident
We fought when we were little. Then we tolerated each other, but we kept our distance. Now we're friends. We have been for about ten years now. I still remember that family vacation in South Carolina where we finally said, "You know? I think we're friends now." It was when we started coming up with code names for family members while we were playing in the pool.
By Jessica Freeborn4 years ago in Families
What happens after listening?
"I just need you to listen to me. I don't need you to fix the problem." It's a common enough statement, but I don't exactly love it. I've been trying to reconcile the conflict about whether it's more helpful to listen to people talk about their problems or if it's more helpful to try and fix the problems.
By Jessica Freeborn4 years ago in Humans
Young Adulthood: Somewhere between learning profound life lessons and crazy
December 31, 2021. It's 11:45 pm; it's been a crazy couple of days. And there are only 15 minutes left of 2021. I'm at a conference in Kentucky with my church's young adult group. We've changed our name so many times at this point, I don't know what we are.
By Jessica Freeborn4 years ago in Humans
Trading our smiles
I came across the following writing prompt: She gained all the wealth in the world, but she could never smile again. It's one of those prompts that made me pause. What if I couldn't smile? Is there any material thing for which I would give up my smile?
By Jessica Freeborn4 years ago in Humans
When fear doesn't win
My back rests comfortably against the back of the plush chair. I'm sitting cross-legged with my laptop in my lap. Everything is still. The only noises are that of the heater and my fingers typing on the keyboard. The sound of typing is soothing to me. I use a program that keeps track of the number of words I type each day. The sound makes me feel productive.
By Jessica Freeborn4 years ago in Motivation
Moments Frozen in Time
A wise man once wrote that "To be in time means to change." Change is inevitable. It's a part of life and all that. Just because change constantly happens doesn't make it easy to experience. And every now and then there are moments that remind us that the soul longs for the place beyond time.
By Jessica Freeborn4 years ago in Humans
