Soul Food {June 2020}

I almost opened this post with the words "this week," because this month has felt so quick. So much has happened, and there's so much left to do. Sometimes I still feel helpless and like I can't do enough, but the biggest thing I've learned recently is that I'll never know enough. There will never be…

Soul Food {May 2020} + A Word on Justice

I was in a Bible study group on zoom on Tuesday. We discussed God's justice, what it looks like in Him and what it means for us. Logging off of the meeting only to log on to social media and learn about multiple acts of racism and hatred was jarring; it never becomes "normal" and…

How I Track My Anxiety Levels & Work Through Spikes

I've had generalized anxiety disorder for as long as I can remember. I've talked about it quite a bit-- the struggle it can be, the mindsets I've learned to use to combat it, even the importance of accepting it. I'm still learning more about what I can do to further understand and ease the anxiety…

Soul Food {April 2020}

My first full month in quarantine was sweetly strange. I had bad mental health days and I had good ones; I felt motivated and I felt defeated; I baked, I wrote, I played with makeup, I bought a guitar, I dropped cake off at my grandma's house, I celebrated a birthday on a Zoom call...…

Kind Truths About Breakups for The Dating Novice

I turned twenty five in October. My fifteen year old brain cannot believe I'm not married yet, but my twenty five year old brain mostly cares about paying rent and working on her side hustle, so it's okay. When I was fifteen, I was being told that dating was wrong and I shouldn't do it,…

Soul Food {March 2020}

Phew. How are you doing? I'm doing okay. I'm painting and writing and playing piano a lot. Some days I'm pretty positive, other days I might need to lie in bed until 10:30, and that's okay. Our months probably looked pretty similar: a lot of unemployment phone calls and time at home. Or maybe you're…

Yet Another 100 Things To Look Forward To

It's been a while. When I started writing lists of things to look forward to, I fell into a groove; it was surprisingly easy, because I'd secretly been wanting to gush about what was possible for my life and now I had given myself permission to do so. I've shared three hundred things I personally…