Challenging my fears: One Week In
I’m one week into my journey of facing my fears as a way of life, and I’m not sure how I’m feeling. This has been a strange week, with a high current of emotions as I began to dismantle my life in many seemingly small ways. I’ve had some victories and some…situations that I will gently refer to as setbacks.
Continue reading “Challenging my fears: One Week In”Do you have to love yourself first?
I think I was 14 years old when I heard it for the first time, “but you have to love yourself first before you can truly love someone else.” It seemed original when it was told to me. Soon I would find out how common this adage is, though.
Continue reading “Do you have to love yourself first?”Challenging my fears: My Two Cents
I’m not usually one for sensationalism or these flashy challenges, but I’ve got a problem.
Continue reading “Challenging my fears: My Two Cents”Stuck in thought prison: My Two Cents
What are you ready for?
Back in my senior year of high school, I was in a fair amount of therapy. But my main therapist had just left the organization for her dream job, and I was left with someone new.
Continue reading “What are you ready for?”Will it be a good year?: My Two Cents
I’m looking out at the newly falling snow and trying to hear the voice within. With January 1st around the corner, the voices around me are getting so loud. About “new year new me”, or “I’m finally going to get fit” or about how this time of the year is such a sham. And something inside me is groaning with discontent.
Continue reading “Will it be a good year?: My Two Cents”It probably won’t be glamorous
We live in a world where people make money just by making their life look fab. We want to show the world that we’re awesome too, and that we measure up (we really do). So we tend to try and put on a happy face when we’re struggling. Even when we’re progressing we want to make sure it looks extra doubly amazing. We wish that our whole life would be worthy of a facebook post or an incredible vlog, and we even buy and sell stuff that has the message “no bad days”. Verbatim. Seriously.
And this is a post about that. Because deep down, it’s something that we all know. Not every day is going to be amazing. Not every moment or experience is going to be mind blowing and gorgeous. But on the bad days, those days when you just don’t feel like a rockstar, it doesn’t hurt to be reminded.
Continue reading “It probably won’t be glamorous”Desperate Reminiscing: My Two Cents
I know it seems like finding the perfect solution to a past problem is worth your time, but it isn’t. Let me explain.
Continue reading “Desperate Reminiscing: My Two Cents”Discernment is key
Over the years, I’ve had no problem talking to others about their deep, real life problems, and giving advice to them based on what I know about them and the life lessons I’ve had. This blog has even been a natural outgrowth of this sentiment. And it’s a lovely sentiment, I give people this advice because I care about them and want them to be empowered, happy and healthy. But you really shouldn’t be just listening to me and doing what I suggest. Let me explain.
