The collection of work explores love, grief, uncertainty, and the inner life — not to explain them, but to understand them more deeply.
About My Work
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What I Write About
Why I Write
What You'll Find Here
I write essays about life as it is lived — the moments we move through quietly but carry with us for years. My work focuses on reflection, attention, and the emotional details that often go unnoticed but shape how we understand ourselves.
I believe language can clarify what we already feel but haven’t yet named. Writing, for me, is a way of observing life closely — of understanding love, grief, change, and uncertainty with more honesty and less noise.
Most come to this space for thoughtful reflections on life and the human experience. Not advice. Not instruction. Just words that help them pause, notice, and see their own lives with greater clarity.
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meet Ellese
Writer. Advocate. Journalist.
Ellese spent years reporting on global initiatives in collaboration with the United Nations, covering international runway shows and New York Fashion Week, and advocating for mental health coverage policy on Capitol Hill.
She worked with Google as an ambassador for six years and partnered with brands including Sephora, Maybelline, and Aveda.
Her work has taken her through press corridors, studios, and institutions around the world — shaping the perspective she brings to stories she creates.
At a glance
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years in Journalism
Cities reached
Deep Breaths
Businesses I run
Rapid Fire: Get To Know Me
Favorite Read
A few things that shape how I move through the world.
10 Types of Human
Morning Ritual
Affirmations and three pages of writing to get everything on my mind out on paper.
Best Reset
Yin yoga in one of my favorite studios around the world
A Quote I Love
"you'll never be ready"
My Calm
The ocean waves lapping in the distance.
A Belief I Live By
Alignment over urgency.
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