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No longer small
I fear being unheard again. From the age of 17 I’ve worked in 11 jobs, from restaurants and retail to entertainment (Six flags scare actor, not the other kind). My friends joke that I’m “Trish” from the Disney Show “Austin & Ally” because every week she had a new job. My first job was at…
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One Girl’s Guide to Growing Up, Love Island Style
There is only one celebrity that I believe will shock me if I ever meet her. One person I admired as soon as I saw her on screen due to her realness, sincerity and willingness to grow. Leah Kateb showed all of these things during her time on screen in “Love Island” season 6. I’m…
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My Sibling Called Envy
For the first ten years of my life I was an only child. It was always just me and mom and one of her boyfriends at the time. One of her boyfriends stuck around, and he was the best thing to ever happen to me. My step father stayed with me for most of my…
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Dancing on my own
Empty club but still having fun When I turned 18, I was always at a club. I loved the ambiance of it, how everything moved quickly and in slow motion at the same time. How the music was so loud you couldn’t hear your own thoughts or the creepy guy trying to hit on you.…
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Snake Bites, Freud Vibes, and Finally Some Peace
I Dated My Mom… Kinda (Therapist’s Words, Not Mine) I once read, “Imagine being bitten by a snake, and instead of focusing on healing from the poison, you chase the snake to understand why it bit you and to prove that you didn’t deserve it.” I read this phrase a couple years ago and it…
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Fearless, Apparently
The palms of my feet are scarred from the slices of these tiny sharp shells. The eggshells that covered the ground I walked through when growing up with my mom, the same shells that scared me into staying in an abusive relationship with a man 15 years older than me, the same shells that silenced…
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Bittersweet Disappearing
Have you ever thought about what superpower you’d like if you could get one. I have, I think about it often. But I don’t think I’d use my power for good, as selfish as that may sound I’d use it to get away because if I were given the option, I’d choose invisibility. Whenever people…
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From Love Letters to Letting Go
I thought I lost my words. A few weeks ago I was in a relationship with a boy I could not trust. It didn’t start off like that, of course, trust is earned through communication, apologies and presence, physically and emotionally. But that wasn’t for us. There came a point where my love letters to…
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I'm a girl in my 20s 