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A Quick Word – You Cannot Go Through Life Alone
Life cannot be dealt with alone. It’s very tempting and sometimes too easy to try and go at life on your terms without taking into consideration others who care about you. I’m someone who does this. I’m very stubborn, I don’t ask for help when I need it, I don’t open up about my feelings…
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Making Friends as an Adult – It’s a Struggle
Making friends as an adult is extremely hard. Which is kind of funny to think about considering we technically started learning how to build relationships as children. Being in grade school, hanging around other kids, you eventually learn how to make a friend or two. Or maybe we just fell into them due to the…
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Unhealthy Habits to Leave in 2022
As we are settling into the new year, our minds may be thinking about resolutions for 2023. The new year marks a clean slate and endless opportunities. However, don’t get ahead of yourself just yet. A lot of us tend to think mostly of the new or old things we want to accomplish in the…
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Holiday Blues
I don’t know about you, but I get extremely stressed and overwhelmed around the holidays. A time that used to be my favorite, doesn’t quite do it for me anymore. Christmas was a feel-good time. A time to enjoy holiday lights, hot chocolate, shopping in a decorated mall playing Christmas music, and cold weather. I…
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Finding Peace
Peace is something we all should strive for. Peace within ourselves, with conflict and loss. Sometimes we need immediate peace, while other times it’s more of a journey. Many areas of life can cause stress and cause us to become mentally imbalanced. It’s impossible to go through life without difficult situations. But it’s not impossible…
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Unhealthy Ways to Cope with Overthinking, and what to do Instead
Overthinking is an annoying and time-consuming symptom of mental distress. It’s when you excessively worry about the same scenario or thought to the point of feeling out of control. Some experience the impacts of overthinking more severely than others, but at one point or another we have all experienced this. It’s a normal reaction typically…
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Choosing to: Be Intentional
This month’s Choosing to topic is all about being intentional. Being intentional with yourself and others. It’s easy to rope yourself into a daily routine where you run on auto pilot. Only doing things because you feel you have to. Being intentional isn’t always easy. In fact, doing the same tasks day in and day out…
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Starting a Fitness Journey – What to Know
Losing weight is hard, even with all the information out there that gives you step by step advice on how to lose weight. Starting a fitness journey was never something I thought I’d need to do. We’re told to love our bodies no matter what we look like. But how are we supposed to do…
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Choosing to Series – Letting it Go
To grow, one can’t simply manifest it with the spoken word. It requires some action as well. The Choosing to Series will be a collection of blogs, posted once a month, on choosing to intentionally focus on one area of improvement, in order to better mental health and overall happiness. It’s difficult to unwind when…