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Mental Health Check!
Let’s talk about mental health… I’m sure I am not the only one who has noticed a huge negative change in my mental health since we first shut down for COVID-19 in March. I have suffered with anxiety most of my adult life, and it is normally manageable, but this year I have found that it has really ramped up. Instead of having situational anxiety attacks (which I have suffered from in the past), It’s more of a constant state of stress, which has caused me to feel much more on edge than I usually am. Not to mention, the giant sense of doom that has been looming over me…
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23 Things I have learned in 23 years
Hi my loves, I am so sorry that my last post was like six months ago… Covid has pretty much ruined 2020 and all of my creativity with it. It is hard to believe that we have already lived through half a year of this shit, with likely at least another six months to go. I know I am not just speaking for myself when I say that this has been a VERY challenging and difficult year. 2020 was hard enough before the Corona Virus hit, and I often struggle to try to remain positive. As I enter my Jordan year, I want to reflect on all of the things…
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Catching Hobbies, not Epidemics… P.S. Stay the Heck at Home.
Covid 19. This is the scariest thing I think most of us have ever experienced in our lifetimes, and I am sure I am not alone when I say that I am having a hard time figuring out how to deal with it. 2020, for me personally, was supposed to be MY year. I just got out of a job that was not a good fit for me at all; a job that was wearing on my mental health and was making me miserable. I was offered my dream job as a program coordinator for a Town’s Recreation and Senior & Social Services departments, and I was feeling like my…
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22 Things I’ve Learned by 22
So here we are… the eve of my 22nd birthday. You best believe that tomorrow I will be waking up to Taylor Swift’s song “22”, and that I will be singing it at the top of my lungs. I have played it obnoxiously for most of my friend’s birthdays, and if you don’t think I will be blasting it all day, you don’t know me very well. I can’t believe I am going to be 22, yet I also don’t feel like I am 21 anymore either. It has been a crazy year, and I feel like I have learned so much about myself and about life in general. So…
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Growing Pains
Hey my loves! I know it has been forever since I wrote on here, but my senior year of college was insane, and to be honest I just wasn’t feeling inspired to write anything. But I have had a hell of a summer, and I have just been feeling like I need an outlet, so HEY WHAT’S UP HELLO. To catch everyone up, I graduated college in May and have been doing an Internship with a Parks and Rec department, and I LOVE IT. After a lot of soul searching and confusion, I have finally figured out what I want to do with my life (at least currently), and I…
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When in Liverpool….
Hey my loves! Sorry It’s been sooooooo long! I meant to do a blog way before now but moving to a new country was way more emotionally taxing and busy than I could have ever imagined. I have been in England for almost two months now, and it has been completely life changing. Over the course of these 7 weeks, I have learned so much about myself and the city of Liverpool, and finally am completely settled into life here. On Wednesday September 12th, my friends Maggie, Cora, and I boarded our plane at Logan airport. We were nervous, apprehensive, scared, and so many other emotions but mostly incredibly excited…
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#God’sPlan?
**This post is going to have a little bit of spirituality in it, so if that isn’t your cup of tea, feel free to not read any farther.** <3<3<3 I have grown up going to church and it has been a big part of my life in past years. However, since going to college I haven’t been more than a few times a year due to working a lot and being busy during school breaks. I’m not one of those “You need to believe in God in order to go to heaven and if you are gay, have had abortions, have tattoos etc. you are evil and need to be…
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This Year is YOUR Year…
Hey my loves!! A good friend of mine was going through a rough time last semester, and she told me something that has stuck with me and inspired me all year. She told me that “This is the year of Danii”, and that she was going to focus on her and what makes her happy. And so I realized that I needed to make this year “the year of Steph” too. I spent a lot of last year trying to make things work in my life that really weren’t worth my time. Pushing aside my own feelings for the feelings of others. Trying to put all of my responsibilities above…
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How to Love your Single, Bad-ass Self
If you have ever gone through a break up, or even just have been rejected, you know how crushing that can feel. Suddenly, you aren’t good enough, you aren’t pretty enough, you aren’t special enough, and you just aren’t… enough. But FUCK that, ladies and gentlemen. Fuck that. Excuse my language, but you can’t wrap yourself in the reasons why someone doesn’t want you. You shouldn’t waste too much time sitting there and crying, wishing you were better, because the truth of the matter is that it wasn’t and isn’t a “you” issue. You are enough, and them letting you go was all on them. Maybe things changed, and this…
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College..? Or an Amusement Ride?
College is honestly such a wild ride… Picture this: You are on a roller coaster, and you are HYPED. You love roller coasters and you are just waiting to get to the top so the ride can actually start. But, at the same time you also HATE roller coasters and kind of want to get off, but you are already moving and strapped in. And then it starts, you start to travel to the top up… up… UP, and then suddenly you are down. And then there is a loop and you want to throw up and scream and cry and laugh all at the same time. And then…
