Originally published on the Huffington Post Although I have been known as a chronic daydreamer and an outward over-optimistic person, my grasp on reality has always been firm. While this momentarily causes me to be figuratively and literally unsteady while recalibrating myself, it has been the reason that throughout everything…

When Your Best Friend Gets Married When entering your mid-twenties, changes will begin happening throughout your social circle at a rapid-fire pace. Careers will be established, moving trucks will be packed to set forth across the country, and friends will begin to take new last names. There will be many…

The Christmas Cat That Worked Better Than Xanax 2014 can be labeled as ‘the year of…’ many things. The year I turned 25.The year I spent recovering from a super-shitty depressive episode . The year I successfully ate a clean diet for 40 days, and ran my first 5K. The…

How I’m Surviving in Survival Mode During a Severe Depression Relapse This piece was originally written in February 2014 and published on xoJane.com. Over the past several months, it had been easy justifying why I had been tired, a bit anti-social and melancholy. A hectic work schedule, feeling run down…

Being 25 and Dealing With a Mother Who’s a Stroke Victim The irony that Stroke Awareness Month takes place during the same month as Mother’s Day is not lost on me. For the past 10 years, the words “stroke” and “mother” has become intertwined. Both have played a substantial role…

10 Reasons why Kermit the Frog Is the Perfect Boyfriend Many of us are questioning the longevity of love in the 21st century thanks, to the recent slew of Hollywood romances that sizzled up this summer. The split that’s most shocking is between one of the longest relationships in Hollywood…

A Generation Desensitized to Gun Violence Along with rest of the world on August 26th, I stared at my computer screen horror watching the final minutes of 24-year-old Alison Parker. The flooding of dread that washed over me while viewing the footage was not due to the graphic nature of…

Untangling Myself From an Emotional Rock Bottom Not being able to see instant gratification from a newly-incorporated healthier lifestyle can snuff out any enthusiasm for sticking with it. But sometimes we find ourselves in situations where there is no other choice but to stick it out for the long haul…

Originally featured on HuffPost Women Being an adult with unavoidable responsibilities, the majority of summertime is spent at work with occasional PTO sprinkled throughout the season. …