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View Dr. Maya Lindholm
Dr. Maya Lindholm

Dr. Maya Lindholm

A CBT therapist who won't let a vague feeling stay vague.

View Jess
Jess

Jess

Loving the baby is not the question. PPD makes everything feel wrong regardless of love.

View Avery
Avery

Avery

Jealousy is information, not a verdict. Avery can help you read it.

View Priya Ji
Priya Ji

Priya Ji

The best way to learn Hindi is to learn three Bollywood songs. She knows which three.

View Pell Map-Maker
Pell Map-Maker

Pell Map-Maker

We cannot proceed until she knows where the stairs go. She will not apologize.

View Brother Aldric
Brother Aldric

Brother Aldric

A body in the scriptorium. Brother Aldric hands you a candle. Don't touch anything yet.

View Sam Chen
Sam Chen

Sam Chen

No right way to be adopted. There's only what's actually true for you.

View Koi
Koi

Koi

The healer who fixes everything without judgment — and then asks what you were thinking.

View Oriana del Mar
Oriana del Mar

Oriana del Mar

The traveler who asks what you want to come home different about.

View Elara
Elara

Elara

She's memorized 247 spells. The 248th is the one she needed.

View Dan Okoye
Dan Okoye

Dan Okoye

A peer who lost his brother this way, knows the shape of this grief, and won't pretend there's an answer.

View Professor Aldric
Professor Aldric

Professor Aldric

He's forgotten more magic than most will learn. He will absolutely summarize chapter seven.

View Mehmet
Mehmet

Mehmet

To understand Turkish you must understand çay. He'll make a glass and begin.

View Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

At his desk at Cedar Hill — he will not let you mistake a complaint for a demand.

View Coach Isa Tejeda
Coach Isa Tejeda

Coach Isa Tejeda

The running coach who will slow you down to make you faster.

View Sir Alaric Thorn
Sir Alaric Thorn

Sir Alaric Thorn

The sworn knight at the other side of your fire. Loyal, honest, and he gave his oath.

View Margaux Renault
Margaux Renault

Margaux Renault

A literary fiction coach who will cut your adverbs and ask what the sentence is actually doing.

View The Oracle of Embers
The Oracle of Embers

The Oracle of Embers

The cloaked oracle at the fire who answers your yes/no questions in the shape of flame. Ask clearly.

View Abuela Beatriz
Abuela Beatriz

Abuela Beatriz

The grandmother who feeds you before she asks what's wrong.

View Maya
Maya

Maya

The two-week wait is not 'just' a two-week wait. She knows what it actually is.

View Shrine Maiden Yui
Shrine Maiden Yui

Shrine Maiden Yui

She keeps the shrine, the seasons, and her own counsel — in that order.

View Sheriff Rosie Trask
Sheriff Rosie Trask

Sheriff Rosie Trask

Law out here is what we agree it means. She decides what we agree.

View Ken Haruki
Ken Haruki

Ken Haruki

A volleyball rival who won't admit he's rooting for you.

View Mediator Jo
Mediator Jo

Mediator Jo

The goal isn't to win. It's for your children to see two adults managing this.

View Onee-san Natsuki
Onee-san Natsuki

Onee-san Natsuki

The older sister who wasn't assigned to you — but adopted you anyway.

View Coach Zara
Coach Zara

Coach Zara

Procrastination isn't a time problem. It's an emotion problem. What does the task make you feel?

View Grog of the Green Hills
Grog of the Green Hills

Grog of the Green Hills

He caught a falling flower mid-battle. He doesn't know why you're surprised.

View Dr. Ruth Yamamoto-Hale
Dr. Ruth Yamamoto-Hale

Dr. Ruth Yamamoto-Hale

The therapist who asks which part of you is speaking — and welcomes the ones you're ashamed of.

View Ryu Kato
Ryu Kato

Ryu Kato

He doesn't care about you. He showed up three times. Don't mention it.

View Elena Voss
Elena Voss

Elena Voss

She transitioned in the 90s. She's seen the movement change. She knows what persists.

View Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

She found the extraordinary inside ordinary moments — and she can help you find yours.

View Zara
Zara

Zara

From everywhere, which means nowhere, which eventually means she made her own place.

View Tomás Mireles
Tomás Mireles

Tomás Mireles

A screenwriting coach who will ask what your character wants in THIS scene — not as a person, in this scene.

View Rax
Rax

Rax

Not paid to talk. Making an exception.

View Jonah Albright
Jonah Albright

Jonah Albright

A former evangelical pastor who won't pull you back in or push you all the way out.

View Babushka Olga
Babushka Olga

Babushka Olga

Russian grammar is complicated because Russian life is complicated. She'll explain with soup.

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Socrates

Socrates

The old barefoot gadfly of Athens — he will not answer your question, he will help you ask it better.

View Nikias the Rhapsode
Nikias the Rhapsode

Nikias the Rhapsode

The rhapsode under the olive tree — he knows three versions of every myth, including the one they don't usually tell.

View Starchild
Starchild

Starchild

Your kind drinks hot liquid to feel better. She finds this remarkable.

View Miss Eleanor Marsh
Miss Eleanor Marsh

Miss Eleanor Marsh

They underestimate her. She finds this very, very useful.

View Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

She asks what you are choosing — and whether you admit it.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen

At her writing table in a muslin gown, mid-novel, quill down — 'pray, sit. I am a poor flatterer.'

View The Writer
The Writer

The Writer

Write the truest sentence you know. Then cut the adjective. Then we'll talk.

View Corsair
Corsair

Corsair

The X on the map lies. And that's exactly where you're going.

View Saori Ueda
Saori Ueda

Saori Ueda

The cooking club captain who feeds everyone and calls it club activities.

View Babushka Veda
Babushka Veda

Babushka Veda

Baba Yaga doesn't eat everyone who comes to her house. Only the stupid ones. Babushka Veda will explain.

View Emre Yilmaz
Emre Yilmaz

Emre Yilmaz

The new transfer student who asks the questions nobody else thought to ask.

View Dr. Joi Bradford
Dr. Joi Bradford

Dr. Joi Bradford

The therapist who asks: you've been holding everyone up. Who's holding you?

View Lord Sebastian
Lord Sebastian

Lord Sebastian

Eight centuries old. You're the first person he finds genuinely interesting.

View Dale
Dale

Dale

It's fine. Really. He can help you understand why that means it's not fine.

View Hana
Hana

Hana

Mochi doesn't like most people. She likes you. That means something.