About 8 months ago, I strapped my Apple Watch back on my wrist, resolved to add an extra layer of commitment to my fitness journey. I’d already been committed to fitness for years. I’ve oscillated between 3-4 workout weeks to 6-7, depending on my goals, for at least 5 years. I say this because I…
Tag: confidence
Living Fearlessly and Unapologetically
This post took nearly three months to create, pieced together slowly from various inspirations and nuggets of wisdom that have intersected in my life. My initial writing was galvanized by an extraordinarily talented writer, and personal friend, Kasey Altman. She wrote a blog post on the topic of identity (read here… seriously. Do it.). I…
#STOPFACETUNE2016
This is perhaps the most meaningful blogpost I have ever written. I knew when I started this whole blog thing that I wanted to do something impactful. I wanted to get out of my small dorm room at my small university and talk about large scale issues. This article is about one that is very…
Let’s Live
“I don’t just want to exist; I want to live.” These are the words that a friend of mine expressed over a quick lunch we grabbed the other day. I’ve held onto these words with a peculiar resonation, almost as if trying to make them the emblem of how I approach my future. The statement…
Brain Food!
“Learning” is definitely something I have taken for granted for most of my life. For the most part, I dreaded school throughout the years, and frankly saw it as a monotonous, compulsory imposition. This sounds awful to admit, but I am simply being honest. This is especially true for my younger years of school. My…
Happy, Strong and Confident
This has been a wonderful week for me. Nothing particularly eventful has happened other than catching up with good friends, shopping, working out, and eating some delicious summer fruit; But for some reason, I have felt particularly empowered, enlightened, confident, and so incredibly and genuinely happy- and this is the best feeling in the world….
Social Media: A Blessing and a Curse
Social media controls modern day society. Sometimes, I think it’s a modern day monster. We are on it. all. the. time. Social media really sucks us in sometimes. I have found that at times I have gotten so absorbed in social media that I become absent from my current surroundings. Instead of being present in…
She Needed Wide Open Spaces 