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, you can get a calendarContinueContinue reading “During the Holidays: The Perfect Advent Calendar for the Stressed and Overwhelmed”

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 way to abolish it. YouContinueContinue reading “That One Thought You Can’t Get Rid of”

Quarter-Life Crisis

Ever hurt someone? Yes. The answer is yes. Ever done something wrong? Yes. The answer is yes. Ever done something right, but it still ended up hurting someone? Yes. The answer is yes. It would surprise me to hear that someone went throughout their entire life without hurting another human being. Living cannot happen withoutContinueContinue reading “Quarter-Life Crisis”

The Pressure I Feel as a Woman

Okay. You might be thinking, “Let’s stop talking about females so much, alright?” The majority of university graduates are female. The majority of paid influencers are female. The majority of… What? What else do we lead in? Long endurance running? Except we don’t lead in that. Yes, the best ultra runner is a woman, butContinueContinue reading “The Pressure I Feel as a Woman”

Start of School Anxiety

University, high school, elementary school. No matter the grade level or the age, going back to school can bring amounts of anxiety that topple over even the most confident, smartest students. As a person who qualifies as neither of those, I’ve surprisingly only felt slight dread at losing my summer freedom. Except for this year.ContinueContinue reading “Start of School Anxiety”