During the Holidays: The Perfect Advent Calendar for the Stressed and Overwhelmed
Opening up a little tab and finding a chocolate to eat, a promise that you are one day closer to Christmas—it was the way to spread anticipation and joy during December. Enough people loved their candy advent calendars that companies began to capitalize on this and reinvent the advent. Today,…
One Year After My “Quarter-Life Crisis”
Okay, clearly it’s a little more than a year, so, for my pedants, we can secretly call this “15 Months After My ‘Quarter-Life Crisis.’” For my readers, my apologies on the thinning of content. The past three months have contained anything from adopting a rescue dog to getting engaged. When…
My First Solo Road Trip
Road trips sound like the epitome of friendship activities. Since middle school, I’ve dreamed of going on a road trip with friends. As a teenager, any time I traveled on the road it was for soccer. As an adult, I’ve had a few opportunities to travel with friends but have…
Insecure & THRIVING
I was confident. It’s hard to describe exactly what it felt like. Science works against me on this one: my brain remembers the confidence much less vividly once it’s gone. But I do remember how much easier joy came to me. Through my adulthood, I’ve been carving through the black…
That One Thought You Can’t Get Rid of
It doesn’t seem to go away, does it? That one thought that keeps coming back to you. Haunting you. You’ve done all you can to get rid of it, but like a ghost in a horror film, it stalks you everywhere you go. You might have tried positivity as a…