Category: Lifestyle
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Read this when you’re over 30 and don’t know what you’re doing with life
As I approach my mid-30s I’m beginning to wonder, is it time to settle down? I’m in that weird stage where I’m not young enough to be lost but not old enough to have it all figured out. Or am I? Should I know what I’m doing by now? Ok, let’s not get ahead of […]
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Read this when you struggle to do what you love
If you’re a writer you write, right? Even when it hurts. After all, someone said great art comes from great pain. Look at the work of Mary J. Blige and Adele. Mary’s song “Just Fine” doesn’t hit like “Not Gon’ Cry” and Adele’s “Someone Like You” or “Set Fire to the Rain” need I say […]
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Damn. How The Year 2020 Taught me how to Curse
I was staring into the fire in my friend’s backyard, we sat socially distant around her fire pit, and I said “that shit doesn’t even matter.” Then I panicked. “Who AM I?” I thought, shocked and awed that I just said the word “shit” so flawlessly — out loud! No one else flinched, the conversation […]
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Why being an empath during a pandemic is exhausting but necessary
Empath’s feel the weight of everyone’s pain on our shoulders regularly. But during a pandemic, we feel the weight of the world.
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Get you someone who inspires you to be your best self
I always joke, “I’m just a girl looking for some bridesmaids” I laugh but I have found them, and some. In relationships and friendships surround yourself with people who want to see you at your best. They encourage you to stay on a goal you’ve set, keep it real with you when no one else […]
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Why it’s important to get away
We spend 8 hours a day at work, at least an hour getting ready for work and an hour in traffic to/from work. That’s 11 hours every weekday spent doing work related things. With 24 hours in a day and 8 of those hours we’re sleep, that gives us about 5 hours a day to […]
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I didn’t leave my room for 5 days, here’s what I learned
In a world full of FOMO and quotes like “grind never stops” I turned it all off. FOMO is Fear of Missing Out, if you didn’t know, it’s an actual thing. In the dictionary it’s defined as “anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on […]
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How to go out and turn up alone
The days of waiting for others is over! You know you can go out by yourself right? 8 times out of 10 when people want to hang out I’m secretly hoping they decide to cancel plans. But the occasion I want to go out and dance or have a drink, everyone is busy. This was […]
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Thank you for understanding: Grieving the mom I’ll never have
You ever have those nights were you’re thinking about something and you can’t go to sleep because of it? You fall asleep for what seems like a minute, and wake up thinking about the same thing again. That was me, the night I wrote my piece about grieving the mother I’ll never have. (Read it […]
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Grieving the mother you never had
This will be my first full year without my mom. She’s around, somewhere living her best life. I’m trying to do the same, but I have to do it without her. Mother/daughter relationships can be complex. They go through phases. As a teen, mom knows nothing, as a adult you find out mom was always […]
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