Category: Wellness
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(Self) Love in the Time of Corona Pt.1
Hustle if you can. Rest if you can. But grow you must. Learn you must. Try to remember to be kind to yourself, sure, but apply pressure. A light choke.
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Marie Kondo that Vision Board!
You’re likely stuck in the house. Time is melting away, and you’re clinging like hell to the remnants of your sanity. Order has gone, and the police are trapped in the sewers. A charismatic villain is occupying your living room. Nope, that’s Batman! If you’re not in a Christian Bale film, you’re likely social distancing,…
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“4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication”
This one is going to seem like a no-brainer. It’s not.
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4 Lessons Adulting Has Taught Me!
Sometimes, adulthood is just making bad decisions (or ones that just feel bad) and sticking with them. Whether it’s seeing out a terrible job, paying all your bills early and leaving yourself nothing to live on, or eating lackluster Pinterest salads for the rest of the week. Sometimes you just have to suck it up…
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#Throwback Thursday Deliberate Action
Life is a generous teacher; giving you multiple opportunities to to learn lessons and retake tests.
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Happy Valentimes Day!
Love your self. Black, white, alone, in a relationship, sorta short, freckly or what have you.
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I’m Addicted to Instagram!
My Matrix is STILL Instagram. It has me firmly spinal cord pumping #FOMO and #fitspo directly into my brain. It simultaneously connects and isolates me. It binds us with tangible proof of our shared experiences, celebrates our differences in culture and cause; all the while discreetly creating clones. 📠
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TIRED of Being Broke: No Money, Mo Problems!
I get it. I’m a quasi-recent grad. I’m young. I “should” be broke. It’s expected. I devoted my first few years after graduation to service, and the non profit sector is so named for a reason. Got it. BUT I’m still broke. Still proportionately the same amount of broke.
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Lessons in Adulting: Imposter Syndrome
When you’re a baby, no one shames you for not speaking English. Or any language besides cooing and burbling. {Actually no one should shame anyone for not speaking English, but that’s neither here not there! Heck you, xenophobes!} So why is it that once you you pass through the invisible doorway to presumed adulthood, are…
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FebYOUary Lesson #2: Don’t Hide!
Here goes something new. I’ll admit I was a little uncomfortable reacquainting myself with a camera. Knowing it would capture my new adult body a little less forgivingly. Knowing that I’m still writing and rewriting my definition of sexy on an etch-a-sketch. Heck it!
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20-Something: Young Adults Seem Stuck
I’ve got a bad case of the twenty-somethings. Specifically the late twenties. There’s fire burning under my butt 🔥🍑, yet it’s too hot to feel. This book called out to me. Maybe Robin Marantz Henig has the answers. Maybe no one does. Read more…
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TV Bae: Shonda Rhimes/Year of No
She’s old, and likes to lie. But in reading her humorous and heartfelt journey to self-fulfillment, I was inspired and reassured. If Shonda Rhimes, the inventor of Thursday nights can struggle and shine, so can I.
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