Thanks to a Buzzfeed quiz, I learned about imposter syndrome this week. Wikipedia describes the syndrome as a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a fear of being exposed as a fraud. Even though there is evidence of their accomplishments and competence, those with the syndrome chalk up their success to…
Hi friends! I am now writing to you as a funemployed adult who is uhhhhhhhh freaking out. There's no ideal time to lose your job, but I would think a pandemic is really the least ideal time to lose your job. I'm now one of those 40 million or so people in America who lost…
The trouble with people who are over-eager is that we are often over-everything. We are over-thinkers, we are over-dramatic, we over-romanticize, we are overwhelmed. So getting too excited about things just comes with the territory. Because one small possibility opens up so many doors for us. We non stop think about how this could work…
I feel like I have been through so many versions of myself. I was once shy, cold, and moody in high school. I was a push-over and boyfriend obsessed my first half of college. I was reckless and couldn't be caught when I graduated college. And now I am settled, finding new parts of myself,…
I think we all experience some sort of regret after a break up. It just feels like you spent so much of your life dedicated to one person when you could have been doing other things. You could have been traveling, you could have been spending more time with your friends and family, you could…
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I was challenged by Bill to share some birthday memories! My birthday was on May 31st, so I'll share what I did as I turned 27 as well as some highlights from past birthdays 🙂 My birthday can be a bit weird, sometimes it falls on Memorial Day. And I've never really had an over-the-top…
Today's my birthday! I turned 27 today and man do I feel old. I've written before about I feel perpetually stuck at 22. I don't know why, but I always just feel like I'm in that 22 year old mindset. New to the world of adulting, still young enough to understand the world, but old…
My first serious relationship was 4 years long and when I say serious, I took it very seriously. I pictured marriage and kids. Planned where we'd live, where I'd go to college, and how our lives would be. At that point in my life, I would frequently say "why bother being in a relationship with…
I don't like my exes, not a single one of them. My relationships/spurts of dating/long-time hook ups ended poorly often. I might've not liked them even before we broke up. Sometimes I stopped liking them during the break up process. Other times, we were friendly for a while, but I ultimately stopped liking them. Mostly…
