Chronic illnesses are scary for everyone involved. When someone tells you they are chronically ill, whether it’s someone you love or a complete stranger, you might tense up, stutter, and have no idea what to say. You want to help them, you really do, but you have no idea how. You’re terrified you will say…
Here are 7 things that drain a whole lot of my energy, and they are probably draining yours too.
I am proud to say that I am a walking cliche. I got sick, watched the life I knew slip away, then fell back in love with life all over again.
100 things both big and small to add to your bucket list
You are in the process of completing your bucket list. Don’t leave it to cram the night before it’s “due”.
Happiness and true fulfillment come when you start living for yourself. Your past, future, and present self-all of it. You grow from your past self, becoming the best version of yourself and learning from every experience you’ve had up to this point. You do the things you used to dream about and make your younger…
A few weeks ago, I published this blog post, Advice From a Sick Girl: Saying “Yes”. I talked about how being sick made me fall in love with life and taught me to take opportunities as they come. On the other side of that, being sick taught me how to say “no.” Am I completely…
I have a challenge for you, and not to be dramatic, but I think it will change your life. Watch the sunrise every day for one week. Just one week, and see how much it improves your life. I was going to say every day indefinitely, but as I mentioned in this post, when you…
I travel a lot. As much as I possibly can. In this post, I am finally going to answer the question I get asked the most, “but how do you afford it.”
5 easy ways to stop wasting your time
I’ll just put it straight- I am a broke college student who suffers from chronic illness, and my greatest passion is traveling. In other words, I travel as much as I possibly can while making it dirt-cheap and hassle-free. I buy the cheapest plane tickets money can buy, and often this means I don’t get…
Just a few years back, I wasn’t living at all. I let my body and my overthinking mind take over my life. I feared for my future and the bucket list items that never had the chance to be ticked off…
