Elissa Sommert

Elissa is in her late twenties and is only now starting to figure out how to be an adult-adult (as opposed to a sort-of-adult). Teacher by day, aspiring author by night, with not enough hours in between. Her ultimate goal is to be happy, even if she’s still not sure exactly what that means.

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Elissa Sommert

Heartbreak Is A Chronic Illness

With chronic illness, we talk about spoons. How many spoons you have available to get through the day, how each thing you do decreases that number. But heartbreak isn’t measured in spoons. It’s measured in knives.