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If you’re like me, you were most likely the odd one out from the very beginning.

For as long as I can remember, there was always this little nagging in the back of my head, this…

Loneliness and rejection are two feelings that most of us try to avoid in life.

On their own, they’re enough to give you that constant punched in the gut feeling, that confused mental state of…

We’ve spent our lives thus far in a state of socially awkward anxiety.

Our mindset is firmly in the realm of never belonging. We’re so used to being in this head space, that we struggle to…

How many of us have reached our adult years, looked around at everything we have going on, and wished we had an “adultier adult” to help us handle things?

And that sometimes includes wishing…

The journey of trying to belong is more of an epic saga, one that we’ve been on for our entire lives.

It’s a long, sometimes exhausting trek along…

How often do we curse technology and its temperamental ways?

From not being able to figure out this or that new app or software, getting frustrated with the seemingly constant glitches, and just trying…

Do you ever feel as though you’re desk, dining table – hell, your whole house – is one big dumping ground for every important piece of paper and every important notebook you’ve ever had?

Does everything in your mind feel like…

Coming to terms with the loss of a friendship or relationship is not an easy path in life.

We often end up questioning so much about ourselves as we grieve the ending, wondering…

Organization is a hit or miss thing for me.

In some aspects of my life, I’m super organized. In other aspects, I’m all over the place, and I by no means have any ducks in a row.

But where I do excel…

Feeling like a social outcast was a huge part of my life growing up.

I don’t say this in a “woe is me, pity me” kind of way. I say it as a way of acknowledging what…

Over this last week, I’ve had a lot of moments where it felt as though I’d been hit by a truck (in a good way) or where I had incredible moments of clarity.

The last few months have been…

Who else has regularly put their own needs and to-lists on the back burner because we seem to be incapable of saying no to other people?

It’s not just me, right?

Navigating my marriage while I was also navigating my newly diagnosed chronic illness was a, let’s say, interesting experience.

I’m lucky in that my marriage is…

Has anyone else felt like the last few weeks have just been – a lot?

Like, a-freaking-lot.

Between rebounding and adjusting course after…

So, I missed a really big goal this week.

For three and half months, I was taking focused action steps towards my fitness goal, which included a certain amount of weight loss.

At the beginning of April…

That lightheaded, room spinning feeling, combined with stomach turning nausea hitting all at once is when I know that my anxiety is hitting me hard.

Sometimes it won’t…

Have you ever needed that moment of escape? To leave your reality of mental and physical issues and enter a new world where none of that matters?

As someone who doesn’t consider herself “religious”, spirituality still plays a big role in my life.

And spirituality can, sometimes, have an outsize affect on our mental health – either good or bad…