Hi friends! This post’s a little long and has some more personal content, so grab a cup of tea and get cozy. cw: body image, disordered eating, mental illness I honestly thought that my battle with disordered eating and body dysmorphia was mostly over. After moving to New York, I was eating fairly regular meals,…
I have always been a very meticulous planner. My neuroticism and perfectionism in my projects lend themselves well to creating a robust planning system, and ever since I got my first school-issued planner in 9th grade, I created a detailed timetable and assignment system that helped me keep track of all my work and figure…
“Maybe this is our version of treat yourself day and he needs his version… Wyatt, if you could blow big money on one thing, not sock money, what would it be?” – Parks and Recreation S04E04 I’ve loved the concept of a “Treat Yo’ Self” day ever since I watched this Parks and Rec episode…
Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens… well, not exactly. I love all of those things too of course, and I thought it might be fun to do a round-up of all the things I’ve been loving so far over the first quarter of 2018! In identifying my favorites, I’m hoping I can reflect upon how…
I am a person that has a very active imagination and very restless hands – in the sense that I often have hundreds of ideas running through my head at any given time, and I want to start working on all of those projects at that very moment. As you might imagine, this is both…
One of the things I continue to work on and to struggle working on is practicing love – not to others, but to myself. Somehow, I have a huge capacity to love and forgive those around me while being cruel and unforgiving to myself; at the same time, I’ve found that I am better at…
In August, I wrote a post checking in on the progress of my New Year’s Resolutions of 2017. Having felt like I succeeded fairly well in completing the majority of them, I spent a lot of the past two months considering what I wanted to focus on in the coming year. A lot of my…