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22 Tips To Have a More Satisfied Life
I’ve devoted the last two years building a life that I’m proud of. I’ve spent so much time and energy investing in myself, letting go of what’s not right for me – even when it’s hard, and improving on relationships with positive people around me. In these last two years, I’ve learned a lot, and here’s the advice I’d give myself if I could go back in time before my whole journey began.
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Not Everything is an Ending Sometimes it’s a Beginning
The human brain loves an ending, that’s why when something ends abruptly we tend to analyze it over and over again trying to make sense of the situation that only has a middle. Those memories stick out so sharply in our brains while the others that concluded fade into the background. I’ve spent a lot of time in this last year and a half trying to make sense of situations that ended in the middle of their story. Many times, I ended them myself, uprooting and rearranging my life as I’ve shared so many times before. Other times people ended them for me, in relationships; situationships; and friendships. A friend…
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I’m Moving (again)!
months; from the friends I’ve made; from the home I know; from the small community I’ve built around myself.
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Why is it Single People are Always Told They Need to Love Themselves?
Dating is hard. Dating is even harder when you have self-worth and high standards. And by no means should you lower those standards either. We already love ourselves; it’d be impossible to date in these circumstances if we didn’t - believe me it’s rough out there.
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Somethings Take Time to Digest
I feel like I’ve amped up this journey for myself to the point where I expected this huge change to transform me completely. However, I’ve settled back into old routines and life feels exactly the way it did when I lived in Chicago.
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What 2021 Taught Me a Long the Way
Here is to the woman I’m going to be in 2022. May she be well dressed, successful, glowing, and happy.
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We All Deserve to Be Heard, I’ll go First
Depression is a deep dark hole you can’t seem to find a way out of. Depression is someone handing you a ladder and they keep screaming at you to climb up it, but you have no arms. Depression is bigger than just pain, depression kills.
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Twelve Ways I Changed My Mindset
I got tired of waking in the mirror and immediately lifting up my shirt to see how flat my stomach looked that morning. I was tired of my clothes feeling snug across my thighs or crying because I couldn’t stop comparing myself to women on Instagram. I constantly felt lost and aggravated that my life felt like it was at a stand-still and I didn’t know what forward looked like. I found forward.
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It’s Time to Celebrate the Beginnings
I've had a lot of silent battles I’ve been hurdling these last few months. I’ve wiped my own tears and comforted myself in dark moments. I lost and gained and lived through so many different highs and lows throughout this journey. I built and layered the skin that lays across my bones to be tough and brave and humble.
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I am not my Pain and Neither are You
My whole perspective has been what I was losing, what I left behind. But I’ve gained so much, I’ve built a life for myself that I promised I would. I achieved a goal I was so afraid to face. I’m doing exactly what I promised myself I’d do for years. And none of that means I don’t get to miss my old life or hurt when those memories crash in, but it’s time to let the pain go from overwhelming the beauty of everything else.