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When Words Carry Indirect Weight
My kids don’t need perfection. They need steadiness.
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When Restraint Reaches Sleep
Months into restraint, sleep has become the place where the cost is paid. Vivid dreams. Fear without resolution. A body…
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When Helplessness Is the Hardest Work
Relational helplessness is the ache of restraint, regulating alone, holding back care, and learning too late how to be present.
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When the Body Gets Sick Too
Being sick made me feel isolated in my own home, stirring guilt from an old version of myself I no…
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I’m Noah Vale.
I’m a “writer” living somewhere between breaking and becoming. After years of wrestling with anxiety, burnout, and the gap between who I was and who I wanted to be, I started The Violin in Me as a place to stay honest with myself.
Here, I write about mental health, therapy, marriage, fatherhood, and the small, quiet moments that often go unnoticed in highlight reels. I’m not offering advice or clean answers – just real stories from someone trying to stay a little more in tune with his own heart and mind.
The Journey of Self-Discovery
This space is for the thoughts we don’t always say out loud. Through anonymous, honest essays and reflections, I explore fear, grief, hope, and the slow work of becoming more myself. If any of it resonates, you’re welcome to walk alongside me—one honest moment at a time.