Category: My Story
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10 Things I’d Tell My 18 Year-Old Self
I’ve been doing the things I love a lot more lately, but I haven’t carved time to write blogs. My mental health is the best it’s been in a long while. I feel I truly did kick ass on the bounce back. I have the desire to do the things I love and be around
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The Bounce Back
It’s been a while since I’ve made a post. Turns out depression and blogging don’t go together well for me… I find it hard to care about much of anything when I’m in a depressive spell – food, friends, family, hygiene, my health. All of it. I don’t want anything other than to not feel.
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My Mental Health Journey
That title should have (so far) in parenthesis after it. I will always be in my mental health journey. Anyway, let’s rewind to a bit closer to the beginning of it though. I’ve had anxiety since I was very little. One of the youngest instances I remember it blatantly was in 3rd grade when I
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Before you die, live
“Antes de morir, vive” My dad wrote that to me once years ago. Never in a million years did either of us imagine it would one day resonate so much with me that I’d get it permanently marked on myself in his handwriting, but losing him has taught me a lot of raw realities about
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Made by Immigrants
Fancy finding you here in my corner of the internet! My name is Esmeralda, but my friends call me Es : ) I am the proud daughter of Colombian immigrants and a first-gen American. Mi Pa was born & raised in Medellín, Colombia, he’s one of 6 (all of whom also made it to the