Rebecca Foley Askew

For high-acheivers who can't name the decision they're actually circling around (yet).

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July 21, 2026

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Overlaid on a picture of a river path and a climb in a forest is the text "I was trying to find something that didn't exist. Yet."

I googled “am I in the right career?” at midnight. More than once. I remember laying in bed, when I couldn’t sleep, typing that into the search bar (poor sleep hygiene and all). The piece I remember most is the desperation and loneliness of those moments, the quiet of the rest of the house being […]

July 8, 2026

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Picture of dock at Maligne Lake in Alberta, Canada. Chosen as representative of the stillness and clarity required when asking yourself why can't I make a decision?

I understand inertia far too well. Not just the textbook version, an object at rest stays at rest, but the other half that my science teachers drilled into me with equal conviction: an object in motion stays in motion. I used to think that threshold moments, those moments where you know you need to make […]