Why Wren Is a Persona

I’ll be honest about this too: I’m a private person. The version of me my friends and family know doesn’t really talk about any of this — not because I’m ashamed of it, but because writing about a divorce, mindset work, and the ordinary mess of rebuilding a life gets harder to do honestly when I’m picturing someone I know reading it and looking at me differently at the next dinner.

Wren became the way around that. She’s a persona — the images you see across this site and its social accounts are AI-generated, and her voice is AI-assisted in production. But the words underneath her are mine: real experiences, real research, real trial and error, just written without the flinch of an audience I actually have to face afterward. This space is where I could finally say things plainly instead of editing them down to nothing.

I think readers deserve to know that plainly, so you’re not left wondering rather than finding out later. That’s really all this page is.