Welcome to The Rebirth Files. Letters from the in-between

For those rebuilding after rupture. Personal. Unpolished. Powerful.

Hi, I’m Joni!

I’m building emotionally intelligent technology rooted in my lived experiences with identity loss, relational trauma, and emotional evolution.

This Substack is where I write what doesn’t fit anywhere else. The truths that don’t belong on Instagram. The ones that arrive in whispers and ache in your bones.

This is emotional architecture for those who feel too deeply to fake it anymore.

It’s a diary. A transmission. A mirror.

I’m writing from the unglamorous middle.

If you're there too, welcome.


✦What You’ll Get

(Delivered biweekly. Or when it’s real.)

Writing that speaks like a late-night voice note from a best friend who truly understands you.

  • Stories from the edge of who I was and who I’m becoming

  • Real-time reflections as I build emotional AI, rooted in humanity

  • Sacred insights on money, identity, intimacy, and power

  • Soul-deep questions to guide your own evolution

  • Tools that don’t ask you to be more just truer


✦This Is for You If…

You’re moving through something hard. Maybe it’s a breakup. A betrayal. A breakdown. A becoming.

  • You don’t need more advice. You need resonance.

  • You want to feel seen inside your own ache.

  • You want to read something that makes you exhale.

Or may you whispered “I don’t know who I am anymore,” but felt a quiet strength begin to stir...

This is your space. The space where you can remember that your deepest wounds often become your most powerful gifts.


✦What Makes This Different

I’m here to walk beside you. To help you remember what’s already inside you.

This isn’t performed wisdom. It’s the unfiltered backend of becoming.

I’m staying soft while building what no one expects.

Proving that strength doesn’t need armor.

Just truth.

I’m inviting you to reflect beside me and be part of building this from the inside out... together.

Glad you’re here. Truly.

₋ Joni


Why subscribe?

  • You want full access to the newsletter and publication archives.

  • You’re rebuilding and want to feel less alone

  • You’re curious how emotion could reshape the future of tech

  • You’re drawn to work that’s raw, reflective, and real

  • You want to be part of something sacred before it’s public


✦Other Spaces to find me on the internet

Instagram @withjoni


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For the friend who just wants to feel understood. These letters are my heart, wide open. Emotions, healing, and the true work of rebuilding from the inside out.

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A Cancerian yapping on emotional and personal growth for deep feelers healing while I develop adaptive empathetic AI.