Lauren Hyland

You didn’t lose your personality. You filed it. Somewhere between being the responsible one and being the…

Hey fam. If you’re new here, this is the whole thing in nine slides. Seven years ago nobody would have…

I smiled at dinner. Screamed in my car at 2AM. And nobody knew - because I never let the two versions of me…

Planning. Common sense. The ability to Google one (1) thing. We’re not angry people. We’re just the only…

WAITLIST 👇 Slow seasons hit different when you were raised on pressure. Rest feels like falling behind.…

Comment TIRED Tell me you didn’t flinch at that. Because somewhere along the way, love and usefulness got…

Polite. Helpful. Smiling. Absolutely did not consent to this conversation. We don’t cause scenes. We just go…

GUIDE 👇 Let’s be honest… Nobody hands you a trophy for holding it all together. They just hand you more to…

1. I don’t audit my tone after I leave a conversation. 2. I ask for what I want in plain words the first…

It’s not paranoia. It’s 25 years of data. Eldest daughters learned to read the room before we could read.…

Every family has one. The thing you’d never explain to an outsider because it sounds completely unhinged out…

My dad doesn’t post. He doesn’t scrapbook. He keeps corks. About seven years ago, my parents started a…

Lowkey the scariest thing that can happen to an eldest daughter isn’t a man who lets her down. It’s a man…

Be for real — The old you would’ve stayed. Stayed in the chaos. Stayed in the group chat that drains you.…

No man has ever swept me off my feet. I planned the date. I asked for the number. I suggested the day. I…

OKAY Every one of these is cheaper than the sentence “I need help.” Not because you’re stubborn. Because at…

Three generations. One competent person. Nobody ever sat me down and gave me the job. I just noticed it was…

I’m not hard to love. I’m hard to convince I’m being loved. There’s a difference, and it’s the reason good…

Interview questions with an eldest daughter pt 2 And part two, I asked Flynn open-ended questions… and she…

The mask was a job, not a personality. You were handed a role before you had language for it, and you got…

You’re not inconsistent. You’re two people who were never properly introduced. There’s the one who runs…

36 looks good on you, Ry. (I get exactly 11 months of calling you old. I plan to use every single one.) This…

Masking is a prison of your own making. And I say that with love, because you built it when you were o and…

This is you if you’re a hopeless romantic… with a backup plan for the romance. Lowkey the most romantic…