To All The Women Silently Suffering Through Anxiety: I Know You
You’re not alone. Last weekend, a friend invited me to come and spend the holiday weekend at her parents’ beach house. She asked me because she knew I was going through a particularly rough patch of...
View Article8 Ways To Sort Your Life Out Like A Total Boss
Your life is what you make it. I distinctly remember a moment from the last large family gathering I was at which has burned itself into my mind. In the middle of dinner, in front of the majority of...
View ArticleWhat I Wish Other People Knew About OCD
It’s not only nervous ticks. I stumble home from a party half-drunk and fully stressed out. Parties are hard for me — there are a lot of people, nobody has the same music taste, and I can’t take so...
View Article6 Books About Badass Women That’ll Inspire The Hell Out Of You
Add them to your reading list right now. I love reading about women who lived their lives way outside the lines; whose journeys were so different from mine, and yet whom I find a little of myself in,...
View ArticleWhat My Grandmother Did To Me That Haunts Me To This Day
I don’t even know what I did to cause this kind of angst. There was a blizzard outside. It was worse on the banks of Lake Erie where I lived than it was in town. I was huddled in the fetal position...
View ArticleWhat I Wish People Understood About Living With High-Functioning Depression
The outside doesn’t always match the inside. There’s a certain image of a depressed person that we probably all have in our heads. It might be someone who can’t get out of bed in the morning, who goes...
View ArticleWhat I Wish People Understood About Living With PTSD
Imagine living the worst moment of your life over and over again. I feel my stomach drop. My body starts shaking; and all of a sudden, I just can’t calm down. I’m finding it hard to breathe; my hands...
View Article14 Signs Your Friend Isn’t Actually A Real Friend At All
Because there’s no space in your life for fake bitches. We all have that friend we’re a bit suss about. They seem like a friend, but there are times when you just can’t shake the feeling they aren’t...
View Article13 Super Simple Things Proven To Boost Your Self-Esteem
Feel better about yourself in one minute or less. If you’ve been feeling down in the dumps lately, join the club. So many people I know, including me, have been going through a rough season as of late....
View ArticleHow Sulking Helped Me Become A Happier Person
Who knew crying in bed with chocolate would change my life? “Wow, Kass, you’ve really got an amazing life. I’m so jealous,” an old friend exclaimed over coffee recently. I couldn’t help but smile and...
View ArticleHow To Tune Out A Noisy World And Listen To Your Heart
Advice for the anxiety-ridden. Most mornings lately, I wake up around 4a.m. with my heart beating fast, sheets sweaty and tangled underneath me. I feel panicked, lost, lonely. I write in my journal...
View ArticleThe 14 Types Of Friends Every Girl Has In Her 20s
Friends like these are friends indeed. Throughout your life, you’ll have many different types of friends. When you’re a kid, anyone can be your friend, as long as they own a treehouse you can play in,...
View Article11 Podcasts That’ll Inspire You To Be A Better Woman
Earphones at the ready. They are there for you in those dreaded boring moments of your day. Cleaning, commuting, cooking, exercising. They become so important to your life, you start wishing you were...
View ArticleRunning Away From Home At 15 Helped Me Find A Home Within Myself
Loving myself was not something I contemplated. I was 15. I was profoundly alone and I had just had sex for the first time. I was the only girl in my various groups (the party group, the stoner group,...
View ArticleOn Freeing Yourself From Emotional Abuse
It took me a long time to understand that addiction isn’t the same as love. Trigger warning: abuse in relationships I don’t know that I’d ever given much thought to the concept of emotional abuse in...
View ArticleMy Bizarre Life As A Fitting Model
When you try on a dress and wonder who they fit it on – that’s me. I hunched behind the changing room curtain half naked, trying to squeeze into the seventh pair of skinny jeans. They were always...
View Article4 Ways To Stop Overthinking From Ruining Your Relationships
Because your brain never switches off, no matter how much you want it to. I arrived home from my boyfriend’s place sobbing this morning. We hadn’t had a fight. He hadn’t done anything wrong. In fact,...
View Article8 Things I Never Want To Hear, Ever Again
Let me stop you right there… People have always loved giving me advice. I’m not sure why – maybe because I have resting friendly face? – but for whatever reason, whether I’m catching up with an old...
View Article6 TED Talks To Watch On Your Lunch Break That’ll Make You Rethink Your Life
Got roughly 15 minutes and a pair of headphones? Settle in. If you’re like most people, you spend your lunch break repeating the same tired routine: crack open a can of tuna, dump it over your...
View ArticleThe Hardest Part Of My Depression Is Knowing It Will Come Back
Here’s the thing about depression: it cycles. Content Notice: suicide (attempted) Depression comes in waves, rippling in and overcoming me like a tsunami, pulling out to leave me, panting and...
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