It seems like productivity has become the most valued thing in society and in our daily lives. We always have to look like we're keeping busy and cram our schedules with stuff that either needs to get done or just because we're so used to constantly doing something that we get anxious without it. Maximizing our time has become a big issue of not being able to live in the present by always looking towards what's next on the agenda. I'm not one to judge though. I do have a prob

Sisterhood has been something that I've really struggled with all my life. I always gravitated having more guy friends, and my relationships with women in the past have been messy and rocky. I don't think many of us are surprised to know that a lot of daughters have strained relationships with their mothers. I am not an exception. My mom and I were very close up until I was 16. Then she got a boyfriend, one who was an incredibly bad influence on her and that I created boundar

I wanted to kick off this blog by speaking about one of my past experiences with grief - one so painful that I denied myself the ability to grieve, even though it was a major loss in my life. The loss I will be talking about is my childhood cat: Biggs. Yes, if you're imagining a very robust looking cat, then you'd be right. When I was 9, my dad found a post in the paper (yes, the paper) for a cat that just had a litter of kittens. We drove out to someone's backyard where I pi

Many people view personality traits as a fixed state of being. I have to admit that at one point, I thought so as well. The phrases, "Oh, you know how they are," or "That's just [name]!" has been used to accept each other, but in a way I find to be fairly dismissive and devoid of true understanding and compassion. Not only this, but there may be patterns of someone that are genuinely damaging to relationships and self-sabotaging to the individual. Many times that person is ou