Mental Health Stuff
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There’s a specific kind of grief that comes with realizing you were never lazy. You were struggling. Not struggling in the dramatic, visible way people tend to recognize and rally around. Not failing classes. Not getting suspended. Not falling completely apart. You were functioning just well enough for everyone around you to assume you were
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Fear is the New F-Bomb
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“The thought of being in a serious relationship scares me.” I was told this by someone I had just recently met and started hanging out with. Someone I like. Someone I enjoy spending time with. And based on his words and actions, I’m fairly certain he felt the same way. The connection was real enough
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I spent two weeks in Arusha, Tanzania working with Zoe Empowers, and I came home fundamentally changed. Not in the Instagram-caption kind of way.In the everything I thought I understood feels incomplete now kind of way. Zoe Empowers works with underprivileged youth—young people who, by most Western standards, have very little. Limited resources. Limited safety