How to Leave Work at Work: 10 Tips for a Clearer Mind and a Clear Conscience Have you ever gotten into your car after a shift and cried because the day felt like too much? Let’s talk about workplace anxiety, overthinking, and learning to give yourself permission to clock out mentally, too. Have you ever […]
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We grew up believing we could change the world by speaking our minds. Somewhere along the way, we learned that having a voice and being able to use it aren’t always the same thing. Remember when we were growing up and everyone talked about breaking the cycle? Speak up for yourself. Stand up for what
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From Skipping School to Surviving Adulthood — A 90s Kid’s Guide to Growing Up in an Expensive World Remember when our biggest worries were whether we could convince our parents to let us skip school? Or deciding what we wanted for lunch in the cafeteria? Remember when cleaning our room meant shoving everything into the
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We spent our teenage years counting down the days until graduation. “No more high school drama.” “No more cliques.” “No more gossip.” “No more worrying about who likes who, who said what, who’s mad at who, and why somebody suddenly stopped talking to somebody else.” We genuinely thought adulthood would be different. Then we got
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The Self-Care Journey | Doing My Best-ish Because sometimes taking care of yourself feels like another thing on your never-ending to-do list. Let’s talk about something that doesn’t get discussed enough when it comes to mental health: taking care of your physical health when you’re already mentally exhausted. When you’re living with anxiety, depression, or another
The Self-Care Journey | Doing My Best-ish When we talk about self-care, we often think about bubble baths, journaling, mental health days, setting boundaries, or learning to love ourselves. But what about taking care of our physical health? What about eating better, drinking more water, getting enough sleep, moving our bodies, and learning how to
We spent so much of the 90s wanting to grow up. We wanted our own money. Our own house. Our own car. We wanted to stay up as late as we wanted, eat whatever we wanted, and never have anyone tell us to clean our rooms again. Adulthood looked like freedom. Nobody really explained the
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We grew up thinking adults knew what they were doing. They paid bills. They went to work. They made dinner. They scheduled appointments. They knew when the oil needed changing and somehow remembered when garbage day was. Surely, when we became adults, someone would explain all of this to us. Right? Wrong. One minute we
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Some days just suck. You wake up already tired. Everything feels irritating. Your brain won’t stop thinking. Work was awful. Someone hurt your feelings. You’re overwhelmed, anxious, sad, burned out—or you don’t even know what’s wrong. And somehow adulthood expects you to keep answering emails, doing laundry, making dinner, paying bills and pretending everything is
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Remember when we were kids and adulthood looked pretty straightforward? You grew up. You got a job. You moved out. You got married. You bought a house. Maybe you had a couple kids. And somehow, somewhere in between, you magically learned how taxes, insurance, credit scores, retirement accounts, mortgages, car repairs, doctor appointments and choosing
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The Millennial Mind | Doing My Best-ish Remember when making friends was as simple as asking someone if they wanted to come over? Okay, maybe it wasn’t always that simple. But growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, friendships felt a little different. We made friends at school, in our neighborhoods, at the mall,
The Millennial Mind | Doing My Best-ish What happens when the life you dreamed about growing up isn’t the life you actually want anymore? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. When I was younger, I had this imaginary picture of what my adult life would look like. I thought I’d have everything figured
