Now that isn’t entirely true, but I switch back into sweatpants as soon as my classes are over or my meetings are done. I live in them, sometimes five or six days in a row. I wear them to bed, get up, change, and sometimes just put them back on… for the entire day. I…Read more
Category: Emotional
Holiday Reminder
I have been meaning to do this for a while now, but here it is! ~~ I’ve heard so many peoples say that around holidays, they’re just out of energy. I’m part of several autoimmune disease support pages on various social media platforms, and so many of us say that EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I don’t…Read more
Uncontrolled
**This post is a compilation of rants I messaged to a friend last week with additions of expansions and information deposited here and there. Sorry for the raw honesty.** On October 2, I was driving the car down the highway. And the air conditioning literally just froze the muscles in both of my forearms. I…Read more
Grief
Grief was the strongest opponent I’ve ever faced. It stood undaunted in the midst of great circumstance. After finally getting ready and picking up my weapon, I just didn’t know how to wield it. It took me months before I figured how to aim well enough to every once in a while hit my challenge…Read more
Allow Yourself Those Days
Sundays It’s crucial to me that I insist to myself that I need a spiritual reset. Thinking back to my high school chemistry class where there was this one button on the digital scale that us students were “not to touch under any circumstance.” And inevitably, a classmate decided to intentionally touch the button labeled…Read more
The “Doing Fine” Syndrome
I hate how the usual greeting of “How are you? Good? Me too!” gets thrown around so casually. To me, the question just gives me yet another chance to mask how I am actually doing. Too many “I’m doing fine” lies, and I have realized that I start to convince myself to believe the façade…Read more