Practicing Existence

Part of my recent learning escapades has been centered around self care. I feel like I have not been taking care of myself physically and mentally as much as I would like to. One of the ways I wanted to have a little fun while taking time to appreciate my body is checking out skin care. I have a lot of fun with facial masks and I get super giddy when I find an amazing new soap or lotion. This time, I wanted to see what an esthetician had to say. In an interview on Allure's youtube page, Dr. Shereene Idriss and her work seem to focus on anti-aging. Which still feels a little concerning to me considering aging is a natural thing and I feel like we could all talk for hour about botox alone. However I wasn't there to judge to point out the things I didn't agree with. I was watching to learn. They approached it in such a way that she is describing what she uses, when, and why. She made a huge impression on me when she talked about how there is no miracle, one-time fix or one-s...

This is the topic that has been very near to my heart lately. I want to start with how I stumbled upon this. I wanted to be "healthier". So I was looking for someone to tell me what to eat, how to eat, and why to eat like that to get to the body that I wanted. I still have the Spider Gwen wallpaper on my phone, because the idea was that I wanted to look like a comic book character and wear her skin-tight suit with confidence. I should probably change that because although I do have a love for the character within the world she exist in, I don't quite think or feel that way any more. I was learning from fitspo people on youtube and wellness personalities and people who broke achieving this down to a simplified math equation. I knew it was the internet and to take it with a grain of salt. If they talked about a study, even if they didn't provide the information needed to look into how legitimate the study was, I was more eager to bite. If they had a lot of followers...

This is a bit of a disclaimer and a bit of a goal for myself. I can edit this later. I have so much experience as an editor and almost all of it is my own words. I can read over a sentence 30 times, trying to get it to sound right in my head. There is no right, and there is no perfecting this. Part of the reason I want to start this blog is to write. Not edit. Not to prove I am a grammatically perfect writer. Not to prove I am a writer at all. This is for the ideas and if I can't see past a comma then I need to calm the heck down.  Alright, pep talk over. Thank you for experiencing that with me.

How are you? I wanted to ask because I have no idea what you are doing here, where you are, or when you are. This is a place I am creating for introspection, discussion, and to collect the gold nuggets from my information sifting. I cannot tell you how many blogs, journals, sketch books, and general projects that I start and never finish! Some have been lost to the ether and some I have lugged around for years. I cannot claim this is the start not only because of that, but also because I didn't start learning about this and writing it down just in this moment. That would be a sad tragedy considering I am 23 years old, although, not impossible. Regardless, welcome to this. I don't think I have a lot of definition for it just yet but maybe in time I will. Maybe I will never write another post again. Or maybe I won't past this week, this month, or even this year. ...which is very like me. Honestly at this point this is going to be my discovery dump. The idea of having a ...