I started going back to the gym after two years. It took me that long for a couple of reasons. First, I have medical anxiety, which means living in a pandemic makes me even extra paranoid. Well, maybe not extra because I always have been over paranoid. Hyper-vigilant, my therapist…

One of the perks of having a single independent mother was watching women empowering movies on repeat growing up. Although in the ’90s and early 2000s, there were things that wouldn’t hold up to today’s standards, they were the beginning of female-driven stories. I think these movies, along with my…

Whenever you are really anticipating something, there is always that fear of being let down. When we talk about movies, sometimes that fear can ruin the whole thing instead of letting the movie speak for itself. Instead of just enjoying it, you start comparing it to your expectation. …

You can have it all, but it’s not going to feel like what you have imagined. I have felt bad that I liked to do so many different things and never really excelled at one thing. Living a life doing just one thing didn’t feel right for me. …

I started going to therapy. The reason I started was because I felt stuck. But I didn’t even know that was why. Going in, I had done a lot of my own work processing my trauma, but I was still excessively worrying, like all the time. None stop worrying about…

I don’t love new years resolutions. For one thing, I always get it confused with revolutions. Every time I say it out loud, I have to take a second and think of which word is correct. Just like every time I say Bilbo Baggins because of that one time when…

If you read my last story, you would know that I think that Scream is an almost perfect movie. I am super excited for a new Scream coming out next year. I cannot believe that Scream 4 was ten years ago already. I am typically not a trailer person. Ask…

It’s October baby, and my favorite time of year. The weather is getting chilly, the trees are turning beautiful colors, and it’s the time I save watching all the scary movies. Each year I do an extensive theme of movies we watch for the whole month. I plan it months…

We may go all our lives without stopping to learn the language our bodies speak to us. It is not something we are taught. We are taught to ignore our bodies and that it is something that is limiting us. I think the opposite. When we learn our body, we…