Snippets on navigating through life while practicing vulnerability.
I’ve worked hard to be who I am today. Sometimes it still feels surreal that I am able to function in a normal life and to live with so much passion, hope, and generally being happy. I’m still working hard everyday but if anyone caught a glimpse of me…
To say I had a huge stigma against medication is, well, true. I grew up in a household where my parents would not use Western medicine unless absoluately necessary (in…
Therapy and pills. Those are the two most common treatments we think of if someone is “crazy” or “unstable” or just not “all-there”. While we are getting better at using the term “mental illness” nowadays, there’s still so…
Three years ago…
… I had just been broken up with and getting ready to move back home. I had moved to a brand new city with this boy hoping for a bright future, but instead, now had to face the humiliation of a failed relationship and moving back in with my parents. I was also…
I knew writing honestly about a sensitive topic, like sex, would invite uncomfortable conversations. (See post here.) I had ones where people expressed how they felt the same, asked me to clarify…
