Blog | Self-Actualizing for Twenty-Somethings

Vulnerability Is A Reminder That You Are Alive

I’ve been having some important conversations about vulnerability lately, because it seems to be laid on thick around here, for myself...

The Best Advice I Received During the Worst Break Up I've Ever Been Through

I’ll spare you the messy details, except to say this: I loved someone deeply, and they left suddenly and swiftly after many years...

DIGNITY

Sometimes pain just needs to be released and there are no words for it, she whispered. As if I’d finally received the permission I...

The First Step to Becoming a Writer

I was over a year in to the first “big kid” job I’d ever had, which was simultaneously the worst job I’ve ever had, and I knew that...

Friends

When you feel all that love around you filling you up to the brim know it is no mistake it is not dumb luck but a testament to the time...

Teachers

I was not taught what being treated fairly and justly felt like when I was most readily able to learn it. So I sought out unfairness and...

Letter To My Inspiration

I remember how you used to rouse me in the dead of night in the depth of sleep. Like some sweet, unassuming alarm You would gently grab...

Dear Twenty-Something: It's Okay to Leave That "Good" Job If It Makes You Feel Bad

I was in the middle of my twenty-fifth year of life when a well-timed phenomena occurred: I was thrust into a quarter life crisis. There...

The Weight

I grieved every inch of this home we made together. I grieved the empty spaces left from the furniture we split before you cut your...

Enough

Today I laughed at my humanity instead of berating it and realized for that moment everything I had was enough. Pin It Want me to let you...

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