To hell with art.

YOU HEARD ME RIGHT. To hell with it. I love looking at it, I love admiring it, but I LOATHE getting graded for it. You might say, “Oh, dear Emily. We all go through those classes that tell us we’re not good at something. We have our weaknesses but remember, remember dear one, your strengths.” […]

Let me make this pedestal a wee bit taller

Pedestal’s. Pedi’s. Pedeste’s. Whatever you call it, everyone knows what a pedestal is. We know them because we create them all of the time. Or at least I do. I am an extraordinary builder of pedestal’s. I build pedestal’s and put people on them all the while I am looking up at them thinking “I’ll […]

I love you, my dearest, darlingest insecurities.

I LOVE INSECURITIES. Don’t you?!

I am only listening so I can reply.

Please, let me indulge you in three recent experiences I have had in regards to significant others & even friends responding to my own personal opinions in a conversation. Scene 1: Ex-Boyfriend *Cut to scene of us driving in his truck and talking about a very sensitive social issue ahem Black Lives Matter. He tells […]

National Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Finding Beauty in the Imperfect

In honor of #nedawareness, I hoped to dispel some of the myths that still surround eating disorders.

“Am I going to feel like sh*t forever?” -A Memoir

I remember lying on my bed while my dad painted my bedroom a light violet color my parents had let me pick out in 9th grade. I pushed my fingers into my ears as I kept focusing on each individual thought I was having: “This is me,” “I am who I am” and “I decide […]

My Eating Disorder robbed me but I’ve stolen a few things back.

Every time I would lay my head down to finally fall asleep, my mind would begin zooming with anxious thoughts and negative babbling’s to the point where I would get exhausted and felt like I had already lived through another day. “How am I going to skip eating at the student council activity?? I’ll just […]

My ship is broken & that’s okay.

I feel like life is just one endless journey upon a sea that is sometimes unforgiving & treacherous but at other times it can bring this feeling of complete calmness and a peace that is indescribable. Sometimes I feel that the ship I am sailing on is complete and full, that I trust in the […]

Motion of Music

Preface: Ben is seriously one of the most KIND hearted and most WONDER-FRIGGIN-FUL people I have ever met. He’s a humble, talented dude and I feel super, suuuuper blessed to know him or even of him. Sign your autograph on my chaco’s PLEASE BEN!!!!!!!! Kiss kiss hug hug. ****By the way, link to his Spotify […]

A big ol’ heart.

Sometimes I feel like it’s more a burden to have such a big, empathetic heart in a way. I mean, you feel your emotions so deeply and then you’re able to feel what others feel in the same manner. It feels like lately that I have people that I care about *so* much that have […]