Ihave created a false sense of vulnerability in my life. I am a forgery. A fake open book. It took me until starting this blog to realize that. I fooled myself by being abnormally comfortable with situational vulnerability than most. Publishing a personal tale of my gastrointestinal issues ...
Personal Growth
I am an absolute sucker for new years & new starts. Life is so romantic when the slate is clean and the possibilities are endless. To skip a lengthy reflection on the last year, it’s safe to say it was jam-packed with highs and lows. Chaotic yet joyful. Difficult yet rewarding. In 2020, I ...
Last week, I painted with watercolors. I was organizing my desk items when I found one of those classic Crayola watercolor palettes. I doubt it has ever been used and I honestly could not tell you when I bought it. After dinner, I filled a small container with water, pressed play on a Spotify ...
It was a Thursday and I was pretty bored. My work assignments for the week were finished by Wednesday and now I was staring at my office desk monitor trying to think of productive ways to fill the rest of the day. It had been a typical morning, except for the fact that a can of sparkling water ...
Setting Goals During a Pandemic: How to Create a Vision Board Despite an Uncertain Future
It has been a year. You felt it, I felt it, we all felt it. No one will escape this year unaffected. The ground gave way beneath our feet. Things we took for granted like driving into the office or sitting in a classroom of peers or even hugging your grandma vanished. Of all things, toilet ...
It’s okay to start over. My college experience taught me this several times, in many diverse and often painful ways. It is a lesson I hope to continue to bring with me through every stage of life. Because day to day it is really easy to forget that this is your life. If you don’t like the ...
Hello friends, today I am coming to you with an Affirmation Wednesday! Feeling a wide and complex range of emotions is part of the pleasure of being human. Today’s affirmation list gives you a little bit of everything, a positive affirmation for you to take with you today no matter the ...
I was unsure initially how I could use this platform to support the Black Lives Matter movement. After receiving helpful and much-appreciated feedback, I decided that providing a collection of resources that have helped me better understand and support BLM could maybe help you too. My audience ...
In a world of critique, comparison, and carefully filtered highlight reels it can seem like an impossible task to feel content in your own skin. To my younger self that bought foundation to cover up the freckles on her cheeks, let the boy convince her that she would never be enough, and begged ...
As sang by the great T-Swift, "It was the end of a decade but the start of an age" 2020 marks the beginning of a fresh new decade, a new age. There were some things in this past decade that should most definitely remain buried in history: my deep side part verging on combover from 2012 ...