Searching For Silver Linings

Your mind is the most powerful tool and I don't think enough of us use it to our advantage. You can quite literally trick your brain into believe that you are the person that you want to become. And it can be as easy as listening to an audio recording right before you sleep at night. I've been practicing this (I don't even know what I would call this) for about 6 years now and I definitely can confirm that it works.

For about 2 years of my life I would listen to audio recordings from my hypnotherapist that would walk me through my swim races (I used to swim competitively at a very high level) and overall identity building. I would lay down right before I slept at night and played this recording. Once it's over I would wake up and then actually go to bed.

What this was, and I actually had no clue at the time, was the Theta brainwave state. Your brain resides in this twilight zone of being awake and asleep. During the Theta state, your conscious mind is turned off, while your subconscious mind is on and receiving everything that you're hearing... except you don't actively hear it.

So essentially, you're processing without actually thinking about processing it. And in that way, the positive self-talk, the affirmations, and the self-belief all infiltrate the mind unknowingly until it actually believes it to be true.

Twenty-One has felt like the longest year EVER. There were so many things going on, new friendships, new experiences, new opportunities. SO MUCH. And I've finally had a moment to just sit down with my thoughts and think about some of the important life lessons I learned this past year. Most of these I wish I knew before heading into twenty-one, but that's also the beauty of life! To simply learn as you go.

So here's 21 things that I've learned throughout the past year. Some things I wish I knew before turning 21. Some things I maybe didn't want to learn.

But to that, I can finally close out this monumental year in my life and career so far, and open a new door to the big Twenty-Two :)

When you set a goal, you intend to go from Point A to Point B. But why is it that Point B can bring so much unhappiness, or even if there is happiness, only a glimpse of it? Getting to Point B seems like an "All or Nothing" to some people. It stops us from seeing all the other points that we achieved along the way. And sometimes we fail to recognize that maybe Point B wasn't really what you wanted after all... Even when we don't get to Point B, we accomplish goals we never expected to accomplish, but needed to experience in order to get somewhere else. And that's a new way that I've been interpreting this Point B problem. You shouldn't feel disappointed or discouraged that Point B was never reached, but instead acknowledge all the other points you went through along the way.

I finally watched Adults this past weekend while at home, and I don't know why I didn't watch it sooner...But I also wondered how I was able to watch two full seasons of a show when I always say there isn't enough time to watch TV. It was this act of feeling like a kid again in my childhood bedroom while watching TV that led me to this spiral and connection between the show and adulting...

I feel stuck and I can't figure out why. I don't know what I want.

Over the past couple months I've been feeling sort of unfulfilled with the creative work that I'm doing in the space of content and I've been having this urge to create more.

I want to try creative direction, I want to modeling, I want to try directing a short film. Things like that have been piquing my interest and I feel like that's the creative shift I need to make.

But it seems scary to even admit that. After feeling like I finally got this whole "content" thing down, and then wanting to change feels weird. But it is a totally normal feeling.

It is okay to not know what you want. It is okay to want to change something. That's what being human is.

Lots of things happening in fashion right now... and things have been catching my eye! From ballet flats to utility belts, the world is our oyster when it comes to fashion. So let's dive in and see what has been piquing my interest, and could potentially interest you as well...

I think we've been taught confidence wrong. We always say we'll start that thing when feel like we're confidence enough to do it, but we should gain the courage to just start it, and then gain the confidence after. It's taking that first leap, that first step, that first risk, and then each time it gets easier and easier.

Do you think it's possible to meet someone twice? Have you ever met someone twice? I think the concept is a pretty fun one to dissect and can totally get you thinking. With a lot of change comes a lot of personal growth and development, and in a way creates these different versions of you... so does that mean we meet people as different versions of ourselves?

Do you think it's possible to meet someone twice? Have you ever met someone twice? I think the concept is a pretty fun one to dissect and can totally get you thinking. With a lot of change comes a lot of personal growth and development, and in a way creates these different versions of you... so does that mean we meet people as different versions of ourselves?

I've been hearing this word a lot and honestly gravitating towards it more and more... so I really took some time to think okay what does this word actually mean and how can I become one myself..? For any creative out there, I know we all want to make an impact with our work, so how can we actually become Culture-Makers??