Category: life
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The Pressure Cooker of Life
Some days it feels like the world is sitting on your chest. Bills pile up, the phone won’t stop buzzing, work drains the last ounce of energy you thought you had, and your brain won’t shut off long enough to catch a breath. Pressure. Stress. Expectations. Life can feel like a never-ending to-do list, and…
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Life has this hilarious way of working, doesn’t it?
You finally save up a little money → your car decides it wants new brakes, new tires, and probably a new soul. You finally get caught up on laundry → it rains for three days straight and suddenly you have no dry socks. You finally eat healthy for a week → your coworker shows up…
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Do It Scared
If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll be waiting forever. The truth is, no one wakes up feeling ready to change their life. That voice in your head will always find a reason to wait—“I need more time.”“I need to figure everything out first.”“I’ll start when I feel stronger.” But growth rarely feels comfortable.…
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She Didn’t Look Like An Addict
She wasn’t the type you’d expect. She had a kind smile, worked double shifts, and always asked people how they were doing—really doing. People said she was “so strong,” “so independent,” “so put together.” They didn’t see her car parked in the same dark lot every night, shaking hands tracing the edges of a bottle…
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Resiliency and Chaos
I once tried to be the “put together” person. You know the type—smooth hair, matching socks, cucumber water kind of vibe. But somewhere between my third coffee, chasing a rogue sock-stealing dog, and accidentally replying “love you” to my boss… I realized I’m more “chaotic resilience” than calm perfection. And honestly? I like her better.She…
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Reminder: Life isn’t always a straight path… sometimes it’s a chaotic GPS reroute with questionable directions.
You’ll hit traffic (stress), construction (healing), detours (growth), and maybe a few potholes (mistakes)…But you’ll also see sunsets you didn’t plan for and meet people you never expected. So breathe. Reroute. Laugh at the wrong turns.And remember: even with the mess, you’re still moving forward.Even if it’s with one shoe on and a snack in…
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Today’s Mood: Somewhere between “I’ve got this” and “Send help.”
🧠 Mentally: Building an empire.💪 Physically: Tired but still showing up.🥴 Emotionally: One spilled coffee away from tears.🎧 Musically: Dancing in the kitchen like it’s 2007.✨ Spiritually: Manifesting peace… and snacks. If you’re out here doing your best with a half-charged phone, overthinking everything, and surviving on iced coffee and vibes—you’re not alone. 💁♀️ We’re…
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10 Signs You’re Technically Getting Your Life Together (But Also Kinda Not)
1. You bought a planner.Have you written in it? No. But it’s cute and that’s half the battle. 2. You meal prepped… once.You’re still eating that same batch of soggy spaghetti five days later out of guilt. 3. You set an alarm for 6 AM.You woke up at 10 and were so proud you only…
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💭 Ever Feel Like You’re Just Freestyling Adulthood? Yeah… Me too.
One day you’re eating cereal for dinner, the next you’re googling “how to fold a fitted sheet without summoning demons.”You balance trauma healing, work stress, and trying to remember where you put your phone (it’s in your hand). But hey—You’re still here.Still trying.Still showing up in your own perfectly messy way. And that’s something worth…
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🌱 5 Weirdly Beautiful Reminders You Might’ve Needed Today 🌱
1. You’re not behind. You’re on your own timeline. 2. Nobody has it all figured out. (Seriously—nobody.) 3. Resting is productive. So is laughing. 4. Some people won’t understand your growth. That’s okay. Keep growing. 5. Even wilted plants come back when they’re watered. ✨ Bonus: Name one small thing that brought you peace today.Coffee…
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🌤️ Sometimes the Miracle Is Just Getting Out of Bed 🌤️
We don’t talk enough about the small victories. Like brushing your teeth when everything feels hollow.Or replying to that text when your brain said, “Not today.”Or even laughing—really laughing—after a long stretch of numb. We think healing is this grand, cinematic thing.But sometimes, it’s silent. Simple.Like opening the curtains. Drinking water. Letting the sun touch…
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Serious(ish) Question…
What’s something that felt like the end of the world back then…but now just makes you laugh? 🫠 Getting left on read?😩 That terrible haircut?💔 Crying over someone who couldn’t even spell “loyal”?😬 Wearing two polos with both collars popped? For me?One time, my “friend” did my makeup before school. I trusted her. Big mistake.Before…
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✨LIFE TIP: BE A CACTUS✨
Grow even when it’s dry.Thrive even when it’s prickly.Stand tall with zero explanation.And most importantly…Don’t water yourself down for people who only want succulents 🌵😌 #GrowthMindset #StayWeird #CactusEnergy #HealingWithHumor
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“8 Unhinged Habits That Are Actually Just Self-Care in Disguise”
Because sometimes healing looks like chaos with a side of snacks. 1. Rearranging your entire room at 2 a.m.Not insomnia—feng shui therapy. 2. Buying plants you know will die in 3 weeks.It’s about hope. And denial. But mostly hope. 3. Talking to your dog like they’re your therapist.And honestly? They give better advice than most…
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10 Signs You’re Probably Healing… but Also Kinda Losing It
Healing isn’t always soft music and journaling. Sometimes it’s crying in the shower and then laughing at memes 2 minutes later. If you relate to any of these, congrats—you’re probably healing… chaotically. 1. You’re setting boundaries… but in a tone that sounds like you’re quitting a job.“Thanks for the opportunity, but I will no longer…
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7 Reminders For Hard Days
Some days, the weight of the world feels heavier.Some days, your own thoughts feel like too much to carry.For those days, tuck these reminders somewhere close: 1. You don’t have to fix it all today.Healing and change aren’t a race. Breathe. Small steps still count. 2. Your worth isn’t measured by productivity.Rest is not weakness.…
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Unpacking the Silence
There’s a quiet place I go when the world is too loud.Where shame can’t echo and regret loses its teeth. In that space, I find the version of me that still believes—The one before the bruises, the broken promises, the masks I learned to wear. We sit together.Just us.No noise. No pretending. She asks why…
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✨ “Your Past Doesn’t Get to Write the Ending” ✨
We all carry a story we’d rather forget.A chapter that feels too heavy to reread.Regret written into the margins. Shame scribbled across every page. But here’s the truth no one teaches us loud enough:Your past is part of your story, but it doesn’t get to write the final chapter. Yes—you made mistakes.Yes—you’ve hurt others, and…
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Protecting Your Peace Without Apology
There comes a point in life where your peace costs too much to keep trading it away. You stop explaining yourself to people who don’t want to understand.You stop shrinking to fit into spaces that suffocate you.You stop apologizing for needing quiet, needing boundaries, needing space. Protecting your peace isn’t rude. It’s responsible.You’ve fought too…
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From Scar to Story
Some wounds don’t bleed anymore, but they still ache. They whisper reminders of battles fought—some won, some survived. We call them scars. And for a long time, I was ashamed of mine. I used to cover them with silence, fake smiles, and distractions. I didn’t want anyone to see the parts of me that had…
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Stories That Lift You: Books That Feel Like a Deep Breath
There are days when the world feels a little too heavy. When you’re tired of the noise, the pressure, the expectations—and you just want to escape into something that feels safe, inspiring, or simply human. Books have always had that power. They hold space for us.They remind us we’re not alone.And sometimes, they help us…
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You Deserve Good Things
There’s a quiet moment in healing when you realize you’re no longer fighting to stay alive…You’re learning to live. And that’s where the real shift begins. You start craving different things—peace over chaos, honesty over comfort, stillness over noise. You stop chasing people who never truly saw you, and start becoming the person you needed…
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Grieving the Old You
Nobody really talks about the grief that comes with healing.We expect joy, freedom, maybe even pride. And yes, those come—but not before the ache. When I began letting go of the habits, people, and versions of myself that I used to survive… I didn’t expect to miss them. But I did. I missed the numbness.…
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The Silent Strings-What Manipulation Really Looks Like
Manipulation doesn’t always shout. Sometimes, it whispers — quiet enough to sound like concern, soft enough to feel like love. That’s what makes it so hard to recognize, and even harder to escape. It moves subtly, twisting truth until you question your own memory. Until apologies become your default, even when you’re not wrong. Until…
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“Setback Season: The Cover-Up for a Comeback”
Sometimes life hits you so hard, you don’t know if you’ll ever catch your breath again. One moment you’re standing, and the next you’re flat on your back—staring up at a sky that feels like it’s falling right with you. I’ve been there. We all have, in one way or another. And in those moments,…
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A Letter to the One Still Trying
A Letter to the One Still TryingBy Cayce Mitchell Hey you, Yeah, you—the one still getting up, still showing up, still trying even when no one sees it. This letter is for you. I don’t know what today looked like for you. Maybe your hands shook when you reached for the coffee. Maybe your thoughts…
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Lay Down the Backpack: Trading Burdens for Breathing Room
Have you ever hiked with a backpack that felt heavier with every step? At first, it seems manageable. But then your shoulders start to ache, your breath shortens, and every incline feels impossible. You finally stop to check what’s inside—and realize you’ve been carrying rocks. Not tools, not essentials. Just weight. That’s what life can…
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The First Step is Yours to Take
Fear has a way of dressing up as reason. It tells us to stay still, to play it safe, to wait until we’re “ready.” But the truth is, most breakthroughs in life don’t happen when we feel ready—they happen when we finally decide to move anyway. Think of the story of the Wright brothers. Everyone…
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Drinking Poison While Praying for Peace
“You can’t feel peace if you keep drinking poison.” We all want peace—quiet in our minds, healing in our hearts, and clarity in our direction. But peace doesn’t come while we’re still holding onto the very things that are killing us. Poison doesn’t always look like a bottle or a pill. Sometimes, it’s the resentment…
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Good days
I have good days. I have really good days. I just like anyone else have those days where things are..good. I have days where waking up doesn’t feel like a chore, and I have something to be happy about. Lately though, it’s as if waking up is the hardest thing to do. I don’t know…
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Sometimes
Sometimes you just need a push. An ounce of motivation, and the urgency to act on it. Sometimes you just need someone to stand next to you and say “I got you.” Sometimes you just need to have faith that the leap you are taking is the best thing for you. Sometimes you just need…
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Rock Bottom Is Your Saving Grace
Often I hear people ask, “what more can go wrong?” “Can it get any worse?” Truthfully, no. There is no where else for you to go once you hit rock bottom. Once you hit the bottom you have the choice to stay there or move. What are you going to do? You can’t rely on…
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YOU are YOUR own personal JAIL!!
Has anyone ever told you to “quit living in the past?” It seems like a very common saying these days, even more so from those who have found success. It is interesting how some of the world perceives things one way, some another, and some an entirely different way. Think about it, mostly everyone has…
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How Quickly Things Can Change
It really is interesting how one minute you can have one plan, and the next a totally different plan takes over. It is interesting how often this happens and how many of us don’t realize it at all. I am 100% guilty of this, and I finally noticed it today after about 10 years. One…
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Those Who Chase Two Rabbits, Catch Neither..
Throughout our lives we learn about selfishness, greediness, indulgence, etc.. At some point we want more than what we have, and whether we acknowledge that or not, we all have these tendencies about us. Most of us have heard the saying “kill two birds with one stone.” Well, what if that stone hit neither? What…
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The Success That Is Created After Discovering The Biggest Lie Ever Told
Okay peeps, As promised, here is the newest blog post!! What is the biggest lie ever told? How do you become successful? How do these intertwine? Well first, I need you all to have an open mind, and understand that this is just my way of thinking, and you can take it how you want.…
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Define YOURSELF!
Trust me when I say mental health is no easy feat for anyone. There are days of darkness and weeks of sunshine, and if you’re lucky, sometimes you forget you even have a mental illness. Then, out of nowhere the truth hits you like a truck and you’re right back at the beginning. The beginning…
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Why Failure Is Necessary
It took me a long time to figure out why failure is sometimes recognized as a good thing. People who experience failure are more likely to succeed because of the craving to overcome their failures. 100 failures is better than 1 success. Imagine how it would look if you never failed at anything in your…
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Stop and Smell the Roses
Someone in my life has embedded this into my mind. I can’t say that I have been successful at it, but I can say that right now at this point in time, I need to start. Sometimes life comes at you so quickly, and you get pulled in 12 different directions. Sometimes an event occurs…
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Alignment
Life can get nasty sometimes. It can take everything out of us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Life can make us wonder why we even try anymore. Why do we try so hard just to fail again and again? Well my friend, life is a learning wheel. Every time we spin it, we land on…
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Law of Attraction
At some point in your life you have to learn when enough is enough. You have to come to the realization that people aren’t always who they turn out to be. Yes, sometimes people have bad intentions, and yes, sometimes people lie and say things that don’t always tend to be true. There are those…
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Backwards to the Future
It is okay to wonder what life would be like had we done things differently. I know for myself that when I look back I ask myself what I would do different if I could do things over. It’s then that I realize that had I not made those mistakes and decisions, than I may…
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Purpose
Sometimes finding your purpose can be an extremely long wait. You think you found it, but then another opportunity presents itself and you decide to pursue it. You try it out for a while and realize that it wasn’t what you thought it would be. You move on to the next thing, and the thing…
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Painted Picture
My path has been stained by the tears that I have shed..but I am not a painted picture.. I have been molded by the number of times I have been kicked when I was down.. I have been sculpted by the insults and the hurt that I have felt..but I am not a painted picture…
A Walk Towards 