Category: My Self-Awareness
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A White Christmas & Blanket of Love
Merry Christmas! My presents are still wrapped under the tree, and I feel lonely this holiday… which isn’t shocking. I think Christmas is my hardest holiday to spend alone. It’s the only holiday I decorate for, but I can never seem to get in the holiday spirit. This year, I decided not to drink, but… Read more
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Letting Her Make the Mistake
Watch a drunk girl go home with a boy who doesn’t deserve her. Try to stop her, but she doesn’t listen. What do you do then? Enable her? Let her make the mistake she’s so persistent about? It’s hard watching someone make the same mistake you did at 22 when you’re 24 now. Whether it… Read more
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50 Things I Wish I Could Tell My Mom For Her 50th Birthday
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Slipping, Suffering, and Sprinting to the Finish
12/8/2024: I ran my second half marathon this weekend in Millinocket, Maine. It was hell on earth. I signed up on a whim and ran it with zero to little training. The most preparation I did for the run was run a mile everyday for about a month and even then, I still skipped a… Read more
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Healing Through Tears: Finding Freedom in Softness
11/28/2024: I’ve cried more this year than I have in my entire life. I cried half-way to the top of Cadillac Mountain today while staring off into the ocean, while hearing “I’m not that girl” from the Wicked movie, and finally on my drive home in a snow storm. I was never much of a… Read more
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Even Though I Don’t Know Where I’m Going…
I ran 3 miles today and it absolutely sucked, but I did it anyway. Because sometimes life sucks, you want to give up, and think nothing will get better, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do hard things. These past few months have sucked as a whole, and I stopped exercising and caring for myself.… Read more