No strings attached except the ones you choose to tie

Normal is the most relative term in the dictionary. Take childhood. If everyone beats you up in your house, you grow up thinking that’s how houses are. Your frame of reference simply doesn’t know any better. It’s only when you go out into the world that you realize, holy shit, not everybody’s youth was chaotic like mine. Similarly, if everyone loves and respects you as a kid, you might grow up thinking that’s normal for relationships. Because your heart doesn’t...

Not everyone will be able to relate to your happiness. Certain people will treat your desires with disgust and rejection. Some might even resent the shit out of you because you have the nerve to actual enjoy things. It’s the strangest reaction. Who knew that being fulfilled would be such an affront to people’s soul? The key is not getting sucked into the vortex. Because there will definitely be a part of you tempted to summon up some negativity to...

What if everyone we met was just as human as we were? What if we were all just wounded animals trying to heal ourselves as we sit alone in dark corners? What if people deserved to be treated with dignity, regardless of their current circumstances? What if every individual you engaged with was just a brokenhearted warrior striving to be a little bit better each day? There’s no way prove any of these claims. It’s just something we have to...

In client services, marketing often becomes the abandoned stepchild. It’s the nature of working at an agency. Non billable hours tend to be shoved aside in favor of real project time. They simply aren’t treated with the urgency and importance of client work. That’s the account manager mindset. If it’s not revenue generating, then it won’t make it to the top of their list of things to do. And if you work in operations, meaning, everything that’s not actual, day...

You know that moment when your brain starts pumping a cocktail of stress hormones into your bloodstream, and you begin to doubt your own thoughts, feelings, choices and desires? It’s such a shitty place to be. Losing trust in your own judgment is one of those cruel tricks the mind plays on us. Feels like a betrayal. Like you’ve been mentally hijacked. My friend of has obsessive compulsive disorder, and when she finds herself in this untrusting state, she’ll actually...