People pleaser. If you’ve known me for a good amount of time, or read any of my blogs in the past, then you may have heard me refer to myself as that before. I see myself as someone who is a “recovering” people pleaser, but it’s still something that effects my day to day life […]
It’s been an entire year since I’ve written a blog. I’m not entirely sure why that is, and yet in some ways it makes sense. Let me explain— In the past, writing has been a way for me to get out my thoughts in an organized way—sometimes it has even been therapy for my hurting […]
This time of year we talk a lot about being present with the ones we are spending our time with. We see posts encouraging us to put our phones down, turn off the TV, and unplug from social media for the holidays. I think that as a society we absolutely have a very real problem […]
So as you may already know, Ariana Grande just recently donated 5 million dollars to BetterHelp (an online counseling service) as a way to provide a month of free therapy for anyone who needs it. Therapy has been a topic of discussion within my family for years now. My 8 year old son is autistic […]
It’s been longer than I’d like since I’ve written a blog, but the weight of many things has driven me to break that silence. I’ve definately gone longer before, but never combined with this much on my mind. The problem is that I can’t seem to find the words for everything I am feeling, or […]
It was a day in September—the year 2004. I had just graduated high school in June. I was attending a community college and majoring in dance education. Nothing fancy. Just doing what I loved but in a more serious manner. Still living at home in Lowell MA, and wondering where life was about to take […]
If you read my previous blog, then you know that in the past year and a half I came to understand and embrace my anxiety on a deeper level. The pandemic truly reshaped me in a lot of ways. In addition to my anxiety, I began to see that there were more aspects of who […]
“You look depressed.” Someone that has known me for a long time said that recently. No one has ever said that to me. I didn’t realize how much I needed to hear it. As a child I was pretty much always happy. Of course life could be sad or disappointing at times—but overall, I was […]
Last year my family and I decided to start organizing an Operation Christmas Child event on a small scale. If you don’t already know what Operation Christmas Child is—it’s an incredible worldwide project and movement that is run by the organization Samaritan’s Purse. Every year in early November, all over the country, groups of people […]
April is “autism awareness month”—but unfortunately a lot of what I have seen take place overall, is not creating an awareness for what’s most important. I also prefer the term “autism acceptance”, but I think there’s power when we merge the two together. Here’s what I mean: Acceptance of autistic voices, begins with and hinges […]
