I wrote a little pamphlet on flossing without the guilt trip

My dentist friend asked me to look over her patient handout and I ended up rewriting the whole thing. Nothing wrong with her facts, but everything was so doom-and-gloom — bleed once and suddenly you're on a one-way street to gum surgery. So I rewrote it warm: what floss actually does, why it's okay if it takes a week to feel natural, and how to hold it so you're not strangling your fingers. Weirdly satisfying. I think we forget that most people just need someone to say 'you're fine, just start small.'