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13 Random Things About Me
It’s been a while since I reintroduced myself to all of you, so I figured let’s learn a little about me. I always separate my skittles and I hate the yellow ones. Those are trash Skittles. I love scary movies and books. I love a good campfire ghost story even more! I’m a great bowler! Well, at least better than the general public. 😉 When I was in early high school, I thought I’d be a professional bowler, travel the US in a travel and date a guy with a Mohawk. Goals, I guess? My favorite book series is His Dark Materials. I’m losing my mind with excitement…
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3 Ways to Learn to Love Your Body
This post contains affiliate links. Click to read my full disclaimer. Learning to love yourself is no joke. For a lot of us, it will never come easy and the journey is never ending. I can go on a diatribe about society and “norms” and ideals pushed on women, but instead of focusing on the negative, I want to talk about the positive. Anyone who knows me or has been following my blog knows that my journey has been wrought with strife and I’ve struggled to love the body I’m in from the day I learned what self-hate was, at about the tender age of 9. It took another 23…
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Amazon Prime Day
Brushes that massage your head so beautifully, Earrings that appear designer, wonderfully. Spritzes that smell like angelic wings, These are a few of my favorite things. Happy Amazon Prime day! In honor of this joyous occasion, I’ve rounded up 25 my favorite steals on the Amazon website, some of which are even more affordable than usual. You Are a Bad Ass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero This book seriously changed my life. It’s cheeky and fun to read and I honestly walked away with a more positive outlook. I’m planning on re-reading this soon so I can…
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Bucket List check fail: Homebush Bay edition
Bucket list item #2034 – Homebush Bay Sydney, Australia When I told my crew of Australian friends that I had something to check off my bucket list in Homebush Bay, they all laughed. Then they told me not to go there. There were a lot of laughs all around, but I didn’t heed their warnings. Here lies the second time a bucket list check went awry. To be fair, I’ve checked 119 things off my bucket list thus far, so I’m batting at a ridiculously high average. My friend Jess was nice enough to escort me to Homebush, which is where the former Olympic housing…
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A Guide to Gaining Self-Confidence
My journey to becoming comfortable in my own skin and has been outrageously painful and excruciatingly long. I’ve lived most of my life with underlying insecurities wreaking havoc on my confidence and have really struggled to find myself. I’ll be talking a lot more about this in an upcoming story for Lucy’s Magazine (releasing next month), but what I want to talk about in the meantime is the life changes I’ve undergone that have sincerely made a difference in my self-confidence. The fact of the matter is that no matter how much you work out, not matter how healthy you eat and no matter how well you wash your skin…
