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An open letter to my boyfriend

Due to social media, it is so easy to put filters on things and make our lives appear so much better than they are. We share only what we want other people to see or know about us. Isn’t easy to be “happy” when we really aren’t? Nowadays making a real connection with someone is hard or at least it has been for me. Learning to be vulnerable at all has been a challenge. I’ve been good at…

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How can you love yourself, when you don't know how to be loved?

How can you love yourself, when you don’t know how to be loved?

It’s a simple phrase that’s used often, “Learn to love yourself.” How can something that seems so easy, be so complicated? How can you learn how do something, when you don’t even know , that you aren’t doing it? The word love is simply not taught to us, it’s mostly expressed to us.

I don’t believe that self-love comes down to our will-power, but more an honest intimacy with ourselves.…

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What is it about change that makes it so scary?

Fear can be a major problem. Especially, when you don’t realize that it may be paralyzing you from making decisions, affecting your life, or holding you back. Even when you want to make a change, the idea of following through with it, can be intimidating. As a result, you end up doing nothing at all, settling for less, and clanging wildly to the same chains that hold you back.

I hate to admit…

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To The Girl In The Mirror I See

To the girl I once was,

I stand before the mirror looking into your eyes, wishing I would have learned to love my own reflection a long time ago. When I was only a girl, I settled because I didn’t yet believe in myself. I didn’t know, that girl would become, this woman I am today. In writing this, my eyes find tears in the memory of the girl, I once was…

I think of the internal scars, I gave…

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Are You Living?

I can remember being a child and the world telling me, “You can be anything you want, follow your dreams!” I wish it were really that simple. Oh to be young, naïve and that innocent to believe in that inspirational concept. Nobody tells you openly about the sacrifices one must make in order to “follow your dreams.” The ugly truth behind what living vs. surviving life is all about.

Oscar Wilde…

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