Series: The Things That Almost Broke Us - The Year I Don’t Talk About

Everyone has one.

A year. A season. A stretch of months that, if you’re being honest, you’ve trimmed out of how you tell your story. When people ask about your life, you skip right over it, or you mention it in passing, vaguely, with a tone that says let’s not get into that.

Maybe it was a year you’d rather forget. Maybe it was the year everything fell apart: a relationship, a job, your mental health, your sense of who you were. Maybe nothing dramatic even happened, it was just quiet, and hard, and lonely in a way you’ve never quite explained to anyone.

Whatever it was, you’ve carried it. Edited it. Filed it away. We’re not asking you to relive it. We’re asking what it would mean to finally say it existed.

What we’ll get into:

1. The year (or season, or stretch of time) you’ve left out of your own story — and why
2. What you were actually going through versus what people around you thought was going
3. How that time shaped who you became — even if you’ve never connected the dots out loud
4. What it’s like to carry something for years that nobody else knows about
5. Whether naming it changes anything — and what it might feel like to find out

What to expect:

• No pressure to share details you're not ready to share. Some people will tell the whole story.
• Others might just acknowledge that the year exists, and that's enough.
• This isn't about reliving your worst moments for an audience. It's about not having to carry them completely alone anymore.