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2 Weeks in Cartagena: What I Learned About Myself
Two weeks in Cartagena taught me just how much my mental illness limits me. So boom, I did my almost annual international birthday trip and decided to really challenge myself this time. After multiple covid infections plus a concussion, I have been worried about cognitive decline and struggling with anything involving memorization and concentration. So instead of my four days to one week of birthday travel, I decided to spend two weeks in Cartagena, Colombia for leisure and to attend immersive Spanish classes. This ended up being the worst international trip that I’ve taken thus far. All of the negative parts about this trip had nothing to do with the…
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Committable: A Podcast You Need To Listen To
I am back to let you all (all 2 of you lol) know about a podcast I stumbled upon called Committable. A lot of feelings came up for me while listening to it and I needed to share them and also give this podcast its flowers. The host, Jesse Mangan, started the podcast to try and figure out what happened twenty years ago when he was involuntarily committed by something called a “Section 12.” He and the show’s producers interview lawyers, Jesse’s family members, and other professionals to gain clarity on what happened as well as the whys and hows. I think what really got me about this podcast is…
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Trapped
There’s been a topic I’ve been avoiding thinking about for a very long time, but I feel like I’m in a transitional period in life that makes it impossible not to ruminate over it. I feel trapped in my state. And not like a “being held hostage” type of trapped, but a “surrounded by a moat of hungry gators” type of trapped. I’ve pretty much always wanted to move out of state, I even started making plans twice. At one point I was planning to relocate to Georgia and another time, North Carolina. My plans fell through each time for different reasons, but the desire to leave never left. However,…
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Are They Really A Healer Or….
This is a cranky, elder millennial rant, so fair warning. There is this thing that I’ve been seeing more and more on social media where a lot of clinical psychology and mental health terminology/ concepts have been adopted and bastardized by people, particularly the New Age spiritual girlies and what I guess you could call “self-help influencers.” While on the surface it isn’t technically a bad thing, because it kind of speaks to society shifting to viewing mental health and emotional issues as real, worthy of examining, and beneficial to heal. There are also a lot of people with more than a surface-level understanding of this subject matter that do…
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My Loc Journey
It’s officially 1 year into my loc journey. I feel like I should have more words for this but I don’t. Don’t get me wrong, I love my hair in locs. I love the look of them. I love the ease of them. I love that don’t feel the urge to be a product junkie anymore. Wash days are so simple. It’s been great having them. I also feel less self-conscious even when my hair is weeks out from a retwist. So since I don’t have anything prolific to say, I present some of the pictures I’ve taken over the past year:
