Blooming through experience. Memories through adventure.
I've been hurt before. I've felt abandoned by friends and had mean things said about me. I've gone through a lot. But nothing compares to what I've been dealing with the past couple of months (read my short blog here for reference). As I've struggled through this season of life, my first priority was survival. [...]
2020 has been the wildest year I've ever experienced in my (almost) 22 years on Earth and it's only March. WWIII is looming, fires ravaged Australia, Kobe Bryant unexpectedly died, and now COVID-19, a novel coronavirus, has become a pandemic and shut down countries in the span of months, seemingly overnight in the United States. [...]
I have a long history of hating myself. My struggle with depression and anxiety began my freshman year of high school, eight long years ago in 2012. That eventually developed into anorexia. Even after beginning eating disorder recovery in late 2014, I was still far from loving myself. There were more days where I hated [...]
In November this past year, I booked a last minute trip to Florida to go to Walt Disney World with my sister and her friends! We spent four days in Orlando the weekend before Thanksgiving and it was a ton of fun! Despite the personal struggles I was going through, it was nice to forget [...]
In 2019, my goal was to read 50 books. I kept on track until the end of the year when I had some personal stuff happen, but I still managed to read a total of 42 books. I was stressed at first about not making my goal but my therapist reminded me that reading is [...]
In 2019, I embarked on a challenge I had been seeing around the Internet for a while: record a one second video every day for a year. The end result is a roughly six minute montage of your life- the good, the bad, the boring, and the memorable. I thought this looked cute and had [...]
2019. The end of a decade, and also the end of a very large chapter of my life. 2019 started out great and wonderful. I was growing and learning more about myself. I started going to therapy and joined a club on campus, added a major, and started doing more things that made me happy. [...]
I have been absent from my blog much longer than I had planned, but I have a good reason. If you follow me on Instagram, you already know a little bit about what's been going on the past few weeks, but I felt like I needed to post a small life update here as well. [...]
I have read so many positive things about traveling solo, and I finally had the guts to try it for myself. I made mistakes, my confidence was tested, and I came out on the other side with lots of stories to tell- stories that only I can tell. With only one solo trip under my [...]
