Hey, I’m EM.

Storyteller. Soul-searcher. Former corporate girl turned recovering overachiever and people-pleaser, with a stubborn heart and a growing habit of saying the quiet parts out loud. Lately, I’ve been learning to draw outside the lines—and maybe rock the boat a little. Oops.

In 2022, I nearly drowned—literally. It started quiet and calm, then turned dramatic and existential (as most wake-up calls do). Once I came up for air, the only question that mattered was: What am I doing with my second chance at life? Cue clarity. I stopped chasing the corporate ladder, cracked open some long-buried wounds, and started writing to process everything. Because dissociation? I knew that. Going inward? Not so much.

I bought this domain during a late-night identity spiral. A few months post-drowning, I scribbled into my phone: “One day, my story will become someone else’s survival guide.” This is me trying to live up to that.

Since then, I’ve been writing my way through the beautiful mess of becoming—grief, rage, joy, softness, and awkward first dates with my own voice. It’s not polished, but it’s honest.

I speak five languages, have lived on three continents, and am extremely skilled at not quite belonging anywhere. So I made a space for the in-between. The raw, tender, occasionally poetic parts of figuring it out—and sometimes falling apart—in public.

If you’re into soft rebellions, raw reflections, and mid-sentence epiphanies, welcome to Exploring Mimi. You belong here.