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    Grief,  The Kitchen Sink

    If My Mom We’re Still Here, I’d Want Her To Know I’m Okay

    As much as we believe we cannot endure, we do. It can be hard to get back up, but get back up we do. The challenges we experience in life don’t have to remain heavy or oppressive. They can be the foundation on which we build our resilience, tenacity, and unwillingness to sit in the shadows of our sorrow or pain.

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  • Identity,  The Kitchen Sink

    Sprint Towards Your Dreams! I’ll Meet You At The Finish Line.

    To ignore our fears when faced with an actual danger is inadvisable at best. But it's a different thing entirely when we allow countless what if's to dictate what dreams we reach for. On some level, we know this. Otherwise, our dreams, some of which we've held onto since childhood, would simply leave us alone.

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  • Mental Health,  The Kitchen Sink

    How To Deal With Our Emotions When They Hijack Our Joy

    Everything we see when we're in a funk is negative. It doesn't matter if we're literally standing in a meadow of bunnies hopping through wildflowers. We'll see the gnats swirling around our heads and the hot sun beating down on our brows. The truth is that our understanding of reality is filtered through our emotions. How we feel at any given moment determines how we view the world. When our feelings change, so too do our mindsets.

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I’m a dog lover, chocolate addict, warm bread sniffer, slow tea sipper, blank notebook hoarder, nomadic homebody. I seek out opportunities to live my life on purpose.


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