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 […]
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 […]
One of my favorite things to do during the Christmas season is to drive around on a wintery day and listen to The Waltz of the Snowflakes from The Nutcracker. All. The. Feels. I have seen The Nutcracker more times than I can count. As a dancer, it’s always been such a festive and special […]
This is one of my writing assignments from a course with Bob Goff. In order to keep the nature of the class exclusive and private, I will not share what my writing prompt was. Enjoy! Two hours, twenty nine minutes, and seventeen seconds. That’s how long it took me to run my first half marathon […]
