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 […]

But Mama, graduate school?

Part of what people don’t tell you about growing up is that……. IT IS SO MUCH HARDER THAN KEVIN & TERI STOLWORTHY SHOWED ME. I don’t know how my parents were able to hide the stress, big decisions, quarrels, money issues, anxiety, etc. from my sisters and I but BRA-FRIGGIN-VO because I never knew that’s […]

Embracing your Inner Roommate

After many years of scolding myself at the thought of success, I can say confidently that I am doing well. Whole heartedly believing It is the premiere part. It is like being set free from a cage you have been trapped in unknowingly for the past 17 years. The past few weeks I have woke […]