Despite the Sadness, Seek Out Moments of Joy
2020 has certainly been a difficult year. A sad year. A year full of grief on many levels. A year full of uncertainty. At the end of 2019, no one could have predicted that 2020 would be going the way that it is. So many things have happened in such a short amount of time. […]
You Are Capable of More Than You Know
Push yourself out of the boundaries and limits you have kept yourself behind. It’s amazing how resilient and capable we truly are if we just believe in ourselves. I remember for so long I used to say that I wasn’t creative. So in turn, my mind often went blank at new ideas and I boxed […]
Trust that Everything Will Be Okay
College is a remarkable time in one’s life, but it’s hard to see someone you love off to school, especially during a global pandemic. My younger brother is starting his first year of college in just a few days, and I’m so much more worried about him than I would be under normal circumstances. He […]
Celebrate How Far You Have Come
You have the power. Don’t let someone else take it from you. For so long in my life, I let someone else take the power, I let someone else dictate what was good for me and what wasn’t. I had no self-worth, so I sought it out in someone else, but by doing so I […]
Find Someone to Lean On
It’s been about five months since the world turned upside down. Five months of quarantine, social distancing, and isolation. Five months of masks, hand sanitizer, and Zoom calls. Five months of learning how to adapt to survive in an entirely new environment. For folks living with mental illness, survival means something different right now. It […]
Be Patient With Your Mind Like You Are With Your Body
We often seek something that’s going to make us feel 100% better when we are not feeling good, physically or mentally. We are often looking for a fix, something to heal us completely and quickly. But sometimes, and more often than not, healing takes time. When you break a bone, they will give you medication […]
The Number on the Scale Does Not Define You
About a month and a half ago, I got rid of my scale, and it was the best thing I’ve done for my mental and physical health in a long time. At the end of June, I moved into a new apartment, and I decided not to bring my scale with me. Before then, I […]
You Already Have the Strengths Within You
It felt a little rusty to give a speech last week. I have given speeches here and there during COVID, but none consistently as I had been doing pre-COVID. I was a bit nervous and took a lot of time to prepare and make sure I was ready to go and knew what to say. […]
Ride Out the Storm
With all of the tropical storms making their way across the country the past few weeks, it feels like we can’t catch a break with bad weather. In Cincinnati, it’ll be 100 degrees and sunny one day and 65 and storming the next. My mental health can be like these weather fronts. Some days, I […]
Cheers to 2 Years!
I can’t believe that this month I am celebrating 2 years since I started this journey of sharing my story and a whole year since I left my full-time job to pursue my speaking career. A lot has changed since I first started this journey. I had no idea that a small blog launch event […]
