All this time I thought intentionality had to be rigid. Schedules, routines, habits, patterns that you lock into your life. I've tried time and time again to bring rigidity into my day-to-day, thinking that if I just get the right patterns going I would solve all my life's problems: eating healthy and exercising, maintaining regular … Continue reading Creating The Life I Want
Self-Improvement
You Can Find it Again
I’ve been working on an autobiographical/self-help novel lately: I’m rereading my old journals and writing to my younger self to offer the compassion, forgiveness, comfort, and hindsight that I didn’t have then. In the first two or three days I got 4,000 words down, and I’ve been having trouble getting back to it. This isn’t … Continue reading You Can Find it Again
It Wasn’t Your Fault.
TW: this is for victims of SA. I'm writing this because I need to hear these things, and I'm sharing it because I doubt I'm the only one. It wasn't your fault. Period. No one gets to gatekeep by telling you that what they experienced was worse, or that what you experienced was not that … Continue reading It Wasn’t Your Fault.
How To Work When You’re Depressed
I'm not doing a YouTube livestream on this one--at least, not yet. It's a bit more complex and warrants more than me rambling to my laptop. Here's my background on the subject: I haven't held down a job since the Walmart I was at laid off all their temp workers a couple days before Christmas, … Continue reading How To Work When You’re Depressed
My Favorite Thing In The World
ZOX is the BEST.
Discovering Your Life’s Purpose
I wish I had all the answers. I don't have many at all. But I have some tips, and I can share my story. Discovering your life's purpose is stupidly hard. Okay, back in high school I attended this nerd school where almost all the students graduate with their Associate's degree. At one point as … Continue reading Discovering Your Life’s Purpose
Mariah K. Porter 