{"id":19,"date":"2015-11-06T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nosmalltalkblog.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:46:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/","title":{"rendered":"About Nika Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nika Dark is a short story writer based in Ontario. She writes about the complex relationships women have with men, sex, their pasts and their bodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She writes about our insides, how they&#8217;re affected by living in this messy world, and how at times, we unravel. Her work has been described as being anti-romance.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the same content warnings as sexy writing, but with discomfort, not arousal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-166\" src=\"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image001-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image001-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image001.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>People may call what happens at midlife \u201ca crisis,\u201d but it\u2019s not. It\u2019s an unraveling\u2014a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you\u2019re \u201csupposed\u201d to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2015 Bren\u00e9 Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You&#8217;re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-contact-form-7-contact-form-selector\"><p class=\"wpcf7-contact-form-not-found\"><strong>Error:<\/strong> Contact form not found.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nika Dark is a short story writer based in Ontario. She writes about the complex relationships women have with men, sex, their pasts and their bodies. She writes about our insides, how they&#8217;re affected by living in this messy world, and how at times, we unravel. Her work has been described as being anti-romance. All the same content warnings as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}