Confessions from a (reformed) Cool Girl
My Small Rebellion
So, I’m weird. I’m imperfect. I am honest. I contradict myself a bit. I am wrong. I try. That’s all I could ask for. I’m here. This is my act of revolution. And, I’m proud of it.
I Am Standing Again
This post is a segment of Not My Love Stories that powerfully displays that the loves that don’t work out also do work out, because they prove to us that we will remember how to stand on our own two feet again. And, if we can’t remember, we will teach ourselves how to walk again. Because, that is just what we do.
Table For One, Please!
I realized that this summer will be the first in quite some time that I fully intend on being single. No boyfriend. No one I’m “talking” to. No interest in the whole Tinder/dating apps scene. Basically, my internet besties, we’ve got no prospects. And it’s (largely) by design.
This Is Way Heavier Than the “Freshman Fifteen”
We all just really want to love and to be loved. Our world today can easily convince us that we’re lacking or that there’s not enough to go around, but, with love, there’s always more where that came from. No weight, GPA, dress size, or bank account balance guarantees happiness.
This Is a Shoutout to My Ex
I have learned to have immense gratitude for a relationship that did not last. If it had, I wouldn’t have been so invested in learning how to love myself. God knows why we wait to learn how to love ourselves when it feels like our survival depends on it, when it feels like if we don’t choose radical self love, our world might just cave in. But I’ve noticed, in myself and in others, we often wait until we are so sick and tired of feeling incomplete before we finally fill our own damn cup.
18 Things I’ve Learned From the First 18 Years of My life
BROUGHT TO YOU BY ARCHIVED JOURNAL ENTRIES, THE PEOPLE AND PLACES WHO HAVE SHAPED ME, AND MY DETERMINATION TO LIVE OUT AND TELL MY OWN “COMING OF AGE” STORY.
You’re Your Own Damn Everything.
You are your own damn everything. No one is more you than you. No one can understand you the way you do. I guarantee that the love you are seeking to give or receive from other’s is precisely the love you wish you would give yourself. Forget who you will disappoint. Take the risk. Get your cute a$$ in the driver’s seat. Ask yourself what you’re afraid of. Discern for yourself what sets your soul on fire.
Read this before making your “New Year’s Resolutions”
“setting intentions” is quite the BUZZWORD these days. every month, moon cycle, new year, day, YOU NAME IT, people are setting and sharing new intentions. I think it’s wonderful. think about it, we are all waking up to the power of being picky about what we invest our energy into.
5 Books That Have Tangibly Altered My Life
So, as we’re all new here, I thought we could get to know each other a little better by, well, diving right in of course! And why not begin with sharing some of the wise words that have brought me here?