Stamina. I think that is my word for this season of life we are moving through at the moment, this season of uncertainty and challenge and change. I’ve found myself saying ‘the most’ and ‘the longest’ quite frequently of late. “This is the longest I’ve stayed in one place, the longest I haven’t traveled.” “This […]
Category: Thoughts on Life
On breathing through indecision + finding your way back home
An exploration on indecision and intuition, this piece is a 5-minute read. There are no right or wrong answers, only the path you choose. Lately, I have been plagued by indecision. This is not an uncommon experience for me – I’ve spent many hours and days in my life fretting over what I should do […]
2020: the year of letting go (and other thoughts)
Some reflections on 2020. This is a 6.5 minute read. I’m sitting here on my couch in my living room with snow piled up on the balcony outside my window. It’s the third year I’ve been living in this apartment, and I’m starting to feel like it might be time to spread my wings and […]
on belonging, course-correcting + being who you are
Some reflections on what it means to be yourself in a noisy world. This is a 6-minute read. Who am I, really? And when did I start feeling so disconnected from my core? I ask myself these questions so much right now. Whoever thought becoming yourself is a linear journey or one that happens as […]
on adapting, dreams, and shifting paths
This is a 10-minute read. It’s so fascinating to me, how we get where we’re going in life, the many different routes and detours we take to get there. You can almost never see how the path will play out, but more often than not, it does so in the most beautiful way. Life can […]
some messy processing
I’ve been thinking a lot about forgiveness lately: collective forgiveness, forgiveness of others, forgiveness of the self. What does it mean to forgive, truly? How do we forgive? They say forgiveness is a gift you give yourself, but sometimes it feels so hard to access. I haven’t quite figured out how to open it, how to get down past the wrapping paper to the deepest layers of myself.
thoughts on quarantine + isolation
Living alone, in isolation, for a period of weeks does strange things for the mind. We’ve hit week six of quarantine, and I’ve become well acquainted with what it feels like to live purely in my own energy field for a length of time. And it has been informative, to say the least. When the […]