Hi, welcome!
Quick intro:
I’m just an average stressed out millennial, trying to raise kids, put food on the table, and face life’s average everyday horrors with as much dignity as I can scrounge up. I love a very weird range of music, trauma dumping, hilarious memes, dark humour, delicious food, thrifting, swearing, and I’m extremely grateful to my kids for always shining light on my darkest days.
So what’s this about?
This past weekend I felt particularly low; I ended a friendship that was no longer serving me, I am feeling a bit of pressure related to a career development I’m working on, and am going through some very big, challenging times in my personal life overall.
I am currently deeply entrenched in what Dr. Google told me was “despair”. But! Somewhere the throes of my anguish this weekend, I remembered some words from a podcast episode by Mel Robbins (https://youtu.be/lUvC-E3YSxE?si=npONthwXrBl38jTd) that were to the effect of: don’t run from your pain, lean into it and use it because you’re going to feel it anyway.
I was, somehow (through the embarrassingly intense sobbing and pain) inspired to do something new for me. I had created this blog a few years ago feeling like I needed an outlet but wasn’t sure what my niche should be.
Then it hit me: there is some kind of shift happening these days, that we are all seeing and feeling. In essence: shit sucks right now. We are really going through it. Things feel heavy. Not to mention we have constant horror fed into our algorithms daily, watching the news is bad for your mental health, and it often seems there is no reprieve from the struggles of life.
So what?
When I first wanted to have a blog, my “why” was a combination of needing a creative outlet as a hobby, and casting a virtual net to connect with like-minded people out there. So…I dont know about you, but I just want to snuggle up and have tea about it. I want to create a cozy little cave in my corner of the internet where I can be real. I want to cry and laugh and share – but make it comforting because we’re alll sick and tired of feeling sad and scared.
Join me for tea time and watch me struggle through life while trying to find joy in the simple things and share what I discover along the way. Hopefully we can all be inspired to “jumpdafuckup” every day, together (BTW, this song by Soulfly came on when I was on a mental health walk the other day. Sometimes I need self help podcasts, and other times I need Y2K metal screaming at me to stop being a little bitch).
(By the way… https://amzn.to/3IHzhHv has never let me down on good rage music).