Mental Health Stuff
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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
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When I look back at my childhood, I can still hear the words that followed me everywhere: lazy and hyperactive. I was the kid who couldn’t sit still, who lost assignments before they made it home, who would space out in class only to come alive at the wrong time. On the outside, I probably