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Why Everything Feels So Heavy Lately Lately, I’ve been asking myself a simple question. Why does everything feel so heavy? Not just physically. Mentally. Emotionally. The kind of heaviness that follows you from the moment you wake up until your head finally hits the pillow. For a long time, I thought something was wrong with…
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If you’re an introvert, your mind is probably one of the busiest places you’ll ever visit. It replays conversations, imagines every possible outcome, worries about tomorrow, and questions decisions you made weeks ago. Sometimes it feels like your brain never truly gets a day off. For years, I thought I needed to think harder to…
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Being an introvert isn’t something you need to fix. It isn’t shyness, weakness, or a lack of confidence. It’s simply the way many of us recharge, process the world, and find peace. For years, I believed I had to become louder, more outgoing, and more social to fit in. I thought saying yes to everything…
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There are some things you just can’t explain unless you lived through them. Being a millennial means we somehow grew up in two completely different worlds. We remember life before smartphones, social media, streaming, and having the entire internet in our pockets. But we also adapted to all of it as it happened. We had…
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I’ve always been a hopeless romantic. The kind of person who tears up during love stories, smiles at elderly couples holding hands, and secretly believes that somewhere out there is someone who will feel like home. I don’t think I’ll ever stop believing in love. But lately… I’ve started wondering if I’ve been overlooking the…
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If someone spoke to your best friend the way you sometimes speak to yourself, how would you react? Would you let someone constantly call them lazy? Tell them they’re not good enough? Remind them of every mistake they’ve ever made? Point out every flaw they have? Probably not. Yet many of us do exactly that…
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There’s a strange kind of freedom that comes from finally letting go. Not giving up. Not pretending something never mattered. Just quietly loosening your grip on the things that were exhausting your heart. I think for a long time I believed holding on meant strength. Holding on to people. Old versions of myself. Expectations. Guilt.…
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Lately, this has been sitting heavy with me… especially when I look at the gap between how I feel and what I’m being told to do. I was raised around the mindset of just keep going. Push through it. Don’t stop. You’ll be fine. And I get it. I really do. That mentality comes from…
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For a while, I used to read that as instability. Like I couldn’t decide who I was supposed to be, or I kept “starting over” instead of building something steady. But I don’t see it that way anymore. I think I was just growing in real time. Every pivot I made wasn’t me losing myself—it…
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There was a time when I thought being a good person meant always being available. I answered every text. I listened to every problem. I gave people chance after chance because I believed that’s what kindness looked like. But somewhere along the way, I realized I was pouring so much into everyone else that I…