The job requisition sat in my file cabinet for three weeks. I tucked it away deep enough to silence its screams; it was a perfect position for me, but I hadn't been here long, and to apply to an internal position a mere six months after starting this one would be absurd. So I printed it out, and talked myself out of it....

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This has been a year of incomplete tasks, I thought to myself as I jotted down another new idea in my 2017 planner. Another damn idea. I already had a list of tasks I needed to complete for the 3 other works in progress I had piling up on my desk. And here's another. Something else to take up my time. Something else...

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"I really just need to cry to someone," I texted my friend on a Friday night. That text was followed by a series of tweets regarding a social media hiatus, two weeks later. Because I’m distraught. Torn down. Worn out. And the pain I’ve been struggling to carry each day is slowly seeping into the life of everything else I’ve created. I needed...

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Today has been filled with unlimited naps. As if my dreams were an escape from a reality I didn't want to spend my Saturday experiencing. Days like this happen. They occur from time to time. We've all had, and will have, days like this. But we don't have to normalize them. We don't have to make sulking in sorrow an everyday habit. We...

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I’ve been hurt. Cut by swords that created wounds deeper than the 170ft fall from Niagara. Wounds that took years to scab up. Wounds that are still trying to heal. I lost all trust in the person I put all my trust in. Multiple times. Multiple people. I sat in places I had no business sitting in; finding complacency in situations I shouldn’t...

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A spark starts inside of you. It's lit by your imagination and your untouched passions. Waiting for you to dive in, the fire spreads. To some it's frightening. The nerve of you—of anyone—to want a life that's unconventional. A life that's led by love and purpose. A life that's not clenching onto job security, but personal fulfillment. One that's focused on peace and...

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