Tag: lesson

I Am Who I Am: Why Making The Wrong Choices Led Me To Self-Acceptance

.Reading time 8 minutes.

All of our lives, we avoid being “that girl,” for some reason or another. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve reprimanded friends and made them promise not to be “that girl” while discussing our lives. The more I’ve avoided becoming “that girl,” however, the more “that girl” seems to find me. I lived […]

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Letters to me;

.Reading time 10 minutes.

  I wish I could write a letter to my 10-year-old self. Gangly, awkward, innocent. I wish I could tell myself to spend my weekends sleeping on the trampoline instead of worrying so much about bugs and monsters and bad guys. I wish I could go back to elementary school days and parachutes in PE […]

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What Nike meant to say was “Just DON’T do it.” (sometimes)…

.Reading time 7 minutes.

The past few months have taught me a very valuable lesson. A lesson that I am still working on mastering fully, but a lesson that I wanted to share with you nonetheless. This lesson has been in patience. As Americans, we learn day-in and day-out that we are living in a fast paced world and […]

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I ain’t no ‘hollaback’ girl!

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Most of you have heard Gwen Stefani’s song “Hollaback Girl” at least a time or two, and the majority of you also probably use this song to remember how to spell the word ‘bananas’. But have you ever taken a second to really LISTEN to the catchy lyrics that fall so easily from your lips […]

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