What does it mean to live your best life? What does it mean to write your best life? Dear Reader, the podcast, is based on the popular blog of the same name. Hosted by writer, educator, and blogger Icess Fernandez Rojas, each episode, will discuss the ins and outs of a guiding word and how the guests’ lives have been shaped by that word. We’ll talk to mental health advocates, changed lives, and, of course, writers who have lived their best lives guided by words.
And we are back for Season Two of Dear Reader! This season we are exploring such words as empathy, manifest, grief, joy, and breathless. Come listen ...
Exhaustion. With the chaos of the world and with the impact on people of color, specifically Black people, writer and host Icess Fernandez Rojas talks...
It's the end of the year and you're probably looking back thinking that you HAVE to do better next year. But do you know how to do that? For the past...
Have you ever taken a risk? Hopefully, there's a yes to that question, however, for some taking a risk is too much to handle. In the world of mental h...
The holidays are here and soon we'll be attending events that may put us out of our comfort zones. It's difficult to establish boundaries when you're...
When someone says retrograde, do you think Mercury? Of course, you do, however, retrograde also means the feeling of moving backward. We have all felt...
Welcome to Dear Reader: Mental Health and the Writing Life where we take one word and explore. Our guiding word for this episode is "Pause". Writer a...
What is opportunity? Do you know it when you see it, even if it doesn't look how you think it's supposed to? In this episode, we talk to Dr. Trevor B...
In this second episode of Dear Reader, we'll talk about another form of self-care...adulting. We'll also talk about a Dia de los Muertos tradition, a...
Welcome to the first episode of Dear Reader where we talk about writing, the writing life, and mental health. This episode we talk about what self car...