Recently, I have been writing more and more fiction. While this has been something that I am okay with, there are more intellectual things that are in my mind. In one of my film classes, we talked about “Silence of the Lambs”. That was the first time I had heard of Hannable Lector. After finding out that there were many spin-off films and tv shows, I stumbled upon one of them. (I don’t know the title, I have never watched any of them.) The premise was that of a very empathetic person being asked to work with a cannibal to track down criminals. The empathetic person starts to care more…
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My Role as a Woman to Help Men be less ‘Man Enough’
It’s been a while since I have made a post. I have felt like I haven’t written anything that matters in a while. That was until I watched a TED talk by Justin Baldoni (Watch it here). He talks about himself as an actor and what it is like portraying men on television. He talks about how the men he portrays are the men that we as people uphold. Men have to be strong, women have to be weak. He goes on to talk about how damaging that is to both men and women and how we need to stop being man enough and start using our hearts. The one…
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There is Power in Vulnerability
Brene Brown once said, “We can measure how brave you are by how vulnerable you’re willing to be”. While I know she is right, I can’t help being afraid of the word ‘vulnerable’. In my head, I ask myself what I am willing to be vulnerable to? What could I do to be more vulnerable? After much thought and a lot of fear, I realized what I am afraid of. I am afraid of working hard and failing. The fear of failure is very common in our world. Thirty-one percent of people have this fear, which puts it above the fear of spiders. The reason why I have this fear…
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Q&A with Emily Stevens
Emily Stevens is a life coach and therapist who loves helping others let go of their anxiety, help them gain confidence, and set healthy boundaries for her clients to be able to live the life they want. What made you want to do both therapy and life coaching? Well, I started out just as a therapist, and I really liked working with my therapy clients. It has its limitations, though, as far as you can only see people in person and all that stuff. And I wanted to expand but I also wanted the ability to help people who maybe don’t have a specific diagnosis that maybe don’t realize that…
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I’m Not Courageous
She seemed nervous. When I asked Brynn if I could interview her, she didn’t know what for, she didn’t even know why I wanted to interview her or what it would be used for. I was nervous too. I didn’t know what was going to happen in the article and this was my first time doing a project so big. Courage was something so easily explainable and yet I had a tendency to ask the hard questions. Even though this was the case, she explained courage as understanding consequences and yet doing it anyway. She referred to Brene Brown, a researcher who studies shame, courage, and vulnerability. Brynn said that…
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The History of Courage
Courage has been defined in many ways since ancient Greece. The history of courage is something that can help us to understand courage a bit more and how we can apply it to our own lives. It’s no lie that courage has been discussed many times from ancient Greece to today. Even though it has been studied for centuries, we still can’t seem to get it out of our heads. What is courage? How can we become courageous? These questions have fueled the conversation on courage since the beginning. All of them, trying to figure out exactly what courage is and how we can use it for ourselves. Starting in…
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The Woman with a Necklace of Thorns
There are few faces as iconic and recognizable as that of the woman with a necklace of thorns. Her head adorned with flowers, her most notable feature that is never to be forgotten in each rendition of her portrait are the wispy eyebrows that meet in the center above the bridge of her nose. For those of us that see beyond the face in each portrait, there can be found a story of a courageous and resilient woman. Frida Kahlo was known most for her self-portraits. Each one depicted her face as honestly as a photograph, but the surroundings told a story of pain and suffering. She wasn’t a stranger…
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Dreams are Made of These
Life seems dreary right now. It is almost like the apocalypse has actually happened. Most people are starting to get cabin fever and I have been sitting on a couch for almost two weeks. But I know that you don’t want to hear about the quarantine and how that is affecting people. We’ve seen it everywhere online. Instead, I want to talk a little about a fun fact. Did you know that during the Black Death, Issac Newton had to go home because his college shut down? During that time, he discovered the Law of Gravity and he founded calculus. Both of those things are something that we use to…
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Learning from an Emotionless Generation
Emotions can be hard to express no matter who you are. Before I wrote this, I believed that a couple of generations before me were taught not to express emotions and to keep it all to yourself. To be emotionless. Of course, being a person who is going to therapy and regularly expresses their emotions every week, I thought this is the most stupid thing I had heard. In order to cope with life, you need to be able to express your emotions and how you’re feeling. Then I started researching my claim. I thought it would be easy to find articles expressing my opinion. The first article is called…
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I Shadowed a Stranger for a Day and This is What I Learned
Everyone, for the record, I didn’t follow around a stranger for a day. I followed the person who lives above me and I had permission. So, let’s move on. I did learn so much from “walking in someone else’s shoes” for a day. Right now, I am sitting on my couch, exhausted. What I learned from today is that One, people think lowly of themselves. Two, you never really get to know someone, and three, we are very different but we are also very alike. Because I learned these things throughout the course of a day, let me take you through what I did. People Think Lowly of Themselves I…
