It’s New Year’s 2019! How is it already 2020?! Did 2019 even happen? What did I even do?! It’s December 30th as I write this, and I honestly can’t get over the fact that 2019 is done. I feel…
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I’ve been dating someone for a little while now, and things are going well. Which is weird. I’m constantly suspicious of his niceness and simple “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” personality. Despite everything going pretty dang great, there’s still a paranoid part of…
I’m not always one for personality tests. Often I find them to be a little to vague or easily applicable to everyone– but then I found the Enneagram, a personality tool that identifies your basic personality type. I took…
In one of my most recent posts “How to Be a Better Person Through Real Self-Care“, I talk a little about how affirmations need to be part of my real self-care routine. In truth, I haven’t been doing affirmations…
I’ve been thinking about how to be a better person lately. Even though I love myself, and know I’ve made huge gains in the world of personal development and mental wellness in the past two years, I feel a…
I have never been a good sleeper and my sleep hygiene habits are dismal at best. It runs in the family. My little brother is a terrible sleeper, my mom is as well, and from the time that I…
I’ve been wanting to do a post about some of my favorite books for a while, but have always felt like I had other more pressing things to write about. Well, no more of that. I’m finally taking the…
One of the things that I like about traveling alone is the ample time for self-reflection. With that much alone time, self-realizations come in waves, and my recent trip to Italy made me re-think a few things about myself…
Well, folks. It finally happened. I had a good run of staying under budget, two whole months actually, and now… well. Shit happens right? In February 2019, I went over budget by $89. And you know what? I’m still…
We all have a love wish list, a checklist of deal breakers and deal makers we take with us when we go out on a first or second date. But do our love lists work? Clo Bare decided to…
Being unhappy is an indicator that something needs to change. I lost myself a few years ago and I've spent the last year clocking in hours of therapy, blogging and tough self-care to rediscover the parts of my identity…