Welcome!
Welcome to my corner of the internet, where I share my thoughts, reflections, and musings on life, growth, and the human experience. I write about mental health, healing, recovery, grief, and the lessons I encounter along the way, as well as the changes I’d love to see in education and mental health awareness. Writing is my way of making sense of the world, often through stream-of-consciousness style. Perhaps you might find something that teaches, inspires, or empowers you in your own journey.
I not only love writing about my own experiences and perspectives, I love sharing others’ inspiring stories, too. Please visit my Unshared Stories page below, where I share stories of personal growth, resilience, and overcoming challenges, including experiences with mental health, racism, and sexism. I promise these stories will open your eyes to new perspectives.
The Problem with Thin, White, Cis, Able Bodied People Posting Body Positive Pictures
The body positivity movement was made for people with marginalized bodies; those who have been discriminated against for their body…If your body is already widely accepted by society, then you do not need body positivity.
My Fave Beginner Swaps for More Sustainable Living
There is no Planet B. Mother Earth is all we have, and we must do our part to protect her and conserve her natural resources. As we see the effects of climate change more drastically, sustainability is becoming more and more critically urgent.
New Year, Same Inherent Value and Potential
2020 was a year of learning, healing, growing and immense change. It was a year of reflection and gratitude. I am so incredibly grateful to have also formed so many connections and friendships via my recovery account.
To our education system, please reform health class…and advocate for mental health
Although it may not seem like it from the outside, health class is like a conveyer belt for diet culture to spread its harmful messages. It’s raising an entire generation of kids who think that they need to be smaller and that they need to diet and lose weight in order to be healthy…
Why Anti-Diet Activism is Super Important
Diet industries benefit from our fat-phobic, misogynistic, and ableist social structures, as they sell us the fantasy that our bodies can gain and lose value according to our appearance.
There’s Nothing Romantic about a Mental Illness
When will the film industry stop using mental illness as a romantic trope? Romanticizing mental illness is a huge problem in the media industry, because it sets all these expectations and it fails to show how hard it really is to live with mental illnesses.
To Recover, I Had To Break The Mold
Coming from a person who has been nothing but a people pleaser for a fourth of her life, it took me so long to realize and understand that being liked by others does not mean anything if you don’t like yourself.
Can you really be “high functioning” with an eating disorder?
Living life in an ED is a very slippery slope. EDs thrive off of false highs and distorted realities. You think you’re fine.
I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand.
Racial equality needs to be our reality.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Some of my Favorite Inspirational Quotes
I hope these quotes inspire you to be the best human you can be and to find love for yourself and those around you.