welcome to my think tank

Since graduating from Boston University in 2024, this page has basically become my public brain. A running log of what I’m noticing, overthinking, and trying to make sense of about people, culture, systems, and everything in between.

To put it simply, I patterns and nuance.

Lately I’ve been:

reading reports and essays I don’t fully agree with just to see where my thinking bends
traveling as a way of studying culture in real time
teaching Yoga Sculpt / group fitness locally, mostly noticing the power of presence and how people find peace and strength in a crazy world

I’m drawn to the gap between what people say and what they actually do. I believe that gap is where everything real lives.

A few recurring observations I keep coming back to:

Most people don’t have opinions, they have inherited settings
Identity is repetition with emotional reinforcement
The internet collapsed the gap between impulse and expression
Attention is a voting system we forgot we were running
People don’t fully change, they drop what no longer fits
The body tends to register truth before language catches up
Nothing is “just how you are”—everything is practiced into being

Current Independent Research

I’m running an ongoing research project on how women make health decisions when trust in traditional healthcare is unstable, and what alternative decision systems they build.

The focus is not whether people “trust or don’t trust” healthcare, but how decision-making actually happens when clarity breaks down.

Methodology

Qualitative

5–10 semi-structured interviews (30–45 min). Click here to chat with me!
Participants: women with at least one dismissive or confusing healthcare experience
Focus: lived experiences, emotional response, and post-appointment behavior

Quantitative + Desk Research

Secondary analysis of women’s health reports (Ipsos, AAMC, etc.)
Behavioral trend tracking across fertility, mental health, and wellness categories
Social + cultural discourse scan (TikTok, Reddit, Instagram health communities)

PS: I vlog my life on YouTube!

Inside the Tree is my Substack—where I slow all of this down and translate it. It’s the bird’s-eye view version of everything I’m seeing in real time: identity, behavior, culture, media, systems, the invisible rules underneath everyday life. It’s where scattered observations become structured thinking, and where I try to make sense of what’s quietly shaping us. Click the link below, or scroll down to read.

Key Signals (so far)

1. 32% of women report not feeling fully listened to in medical appointments

System pattern: Trust is being eroded at the interaction level, not the institutional level.
My perspective: Most people are not deciding to stop trusting doctors. It is more that one experience where they feel dismissed or not taken seriously changes how much weight they give future advice. Trust becomes something that shifts moment to moment based on how they are treated.

2. ~75% of online women’s health discourse centers on reproductive health (Ipsos, 2024)

System pattern: High conversation volume reflects areas where people feel the least clarity and the most need for answers.
My perspective: People are not just talking about this for the sake of it. It feels like a sign that there is still a lot of confusion and missing understanding around how women’s bodies actually work, so people are trying to fill that gap themselves through research, content, and shared experience.

3. Rising use of self-directed health pathways (Google, TikTok, supplements, tracking tools) after medical ambiguity

System pattern: Parallel care systems are forming outside clinical structures.
My perspective: I do not see this as people rejecting medicine. I see it more as people trying to make sense of what is happening to them when they do not leave appointments with clear answers. So they start combining different inputs like doctors, Google, TikTok, supplements, and what their own body is telling them, and building their own way of deciding.