Not everyone is going to love you. That is a really hard statement to hear. It is especially hard for me to hear, as my entire life I have set out to please others. I wanted to be perfect so badly, so I would do everything in my power to ensure other people liked me. … Continue reading Not Everyone Is Going to Love You, But That’s Okay
Being an athlete defined me. I ran track from the age of 8 to 22. The first question when I saw old friends was often centered around track. Until this day, people still greet me as the "track star". You could imagine that when I decided to hang up my spikes, not pursue a professional … Continue reading A New Approach To An Old Dream
I used to think mental illness and mental health was someone else's problem. I used to think that therapy was useless and I surrounded myself with people who thought the same negative things about therapy as I did. It wasn't until I was in the midst of being broken that I found myself having a … Continue reading Therapy Helped to Save My Life
Have you ever stopped and thought about what it would feel like to be good enough for yourself instead of good enough for everyone else? Have you ever stopped and thought about how liberating that would be? How it would feel to be good enough exactly as you are and not care what other people … Continue reading Be Good Enough For Yourself
*Trigger warning* this post talks about my experience with suicidal thoughts I remember it clear as day. In the middle of a beach run, attempting to clear my head of the internal struggles I was dealing with while also trying to hold back the tears. I desperately wanted the pain I was going through in … Continue reading Keep Fighting For You
Beautifully Simply You 