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  • Things I Didn't Ask My Breast Reduction Surgeon That I Should Have, But Didn't Know To
  • My Behavioral and Psychological Changes After My Breast Reduction
  • My First Bra Fitting After My Reduction
  • My Nexplanon Experience: Why I Removed it After Four Months
  • My Three Year Breast Reduction Anniversary
  • My Breast Reduction 5 Years Later
  • Why I quit Cheer leading, and Why I Don't Want My Children to be Cheerleaders
  • My Breast Reduction
  • 5 Things That Changed After My Breast Reduction
  • The "Right" Reasons To Get a Breast Reduction
  • Breast Reduction Series

    The “Right” Reasons To Get a Breast Reduction

    September 18, 2019 /

    As someone who writes a lot about my breast reduction and is a huge advocate for the surgery, I get shitty people posting shitty comments that I always delete (I read and approve all comments on my content) because I don’t need that kind of negativity and no one else does. 100% of these comments are about the “right” reasons to get a breast reduction. This pisses me off to no end. When someone claims that there are “right reasons” to get a breast reduction, they are saying that most reasons are “wrong reasons.” The only wrong reason to choose a breast reduction (or augmentation for that matter) is when…

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    My First Bra Fitting After My Reduction

    July 25, 2018

    My Breast Reduction

    December 30, 2017

    Breast Reduction: Fear, Excitement, and the Process

    December 30, 2017
  • Habits,  Mental Health Series,  Simple Life Series

    Becoming a Good Enough-ist

    September 11, 2019 /

    Becoming a good enough-ist has allowed me to grow and learn and be the best I can be, being a perfectionist only made me a stagnated, selfish and unreasonable person. Now, perfectionism isn't "good enough" for me.

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    Nail Biting Habit Update: Taking a Break From Gel Manicures

    April 3, 2019

    Phone Addiction Update: Week one

    September 1, 2018
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    My Nail Biting Habit

    October 6, 2018
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    Why I Have a Problem With Sarcasm

    August 26, 2019 /

    Sarcasm can be mean, it can be unhealthy, and can hurt relationships; yet so many people treat sarcasm as a personality trait synonymous with cool, clever, and witty. I have a problem with sarcasm for a variety of reasons; primarily because a lot of people use sarcasm inappropriately and cause a lot of damage in the process. My main reasons for hating sarcasm are these: people use it as a weapon and an excuse for bad social skills, it’s bad communication, it’s an unhealthy coping mechanism, and people treat it like a personality trait. Sarcasm as a Weapon The definition of sarcasm from Merriam-Webster is: a sharp and often satirical…

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    My Favorite Things About Winter

    December 31, 2018

    I Will Never Pass Up A Selfie

    February 18, 2018

    Thank You Letters are Important!

    August 17, 2018
  • Breast Reduction Series

    My Behavioral and Psychological Changes After My Breast Reduction

    August 19, 2019 /

    Like so many women with large breasts I always felt like people saw them first, and me, if at all, second. I had so much internalized hate towards my breasts because I felt like they prevented me from being me, from being seen as the intelligent and competent person I am, and from feeling respected as a human and not an object.

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    My Three Year Breast Reduction Anniversary

    July 8, 2018
    "My First Bra Fitting After my Reduction"

    My First Bra Fitting After My Reduction

    July 25, 2018

    My Breast Reduction 5 Years Later

    July 8, 2020
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    Breast Reduction Series

    Things I Didn’t Ask My Breast Reduction Surgeon That I Should Have, But Didn’t Know To

    August 12, 2019 /

    Ask your surgeon and doctor about the things you care about, and don't let yourself get to a point where you are so desperate anything is good enough for you. Ask questions and if you don't like the answers, it's okay to talk to other surgeons covered by your insurance. You are going to a surgeon for a very important medical service, if they aren't satisfying your needs and concerns, find someone who will. Know as much as you can about your surgery as possible. Knowledge, in this sense, can only hep you in your breast reduction process and give you agency.

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    Breast Reduction: Fear, Excitement, and the Process

    December 30, 2017
    "My First Bra Fitting After my Reduction"

    My First Bra Fitting After My Reduction

    July 25, 2018

    5 Things That Changed After My Breast Reduction

    January 29, 2018
  • Mental Health Series,  Simple Life Series

    Why Minimalism is Right For Me, but Not Everyone

    August 5, 2019 /

    I’ve mentioned this before in my “5 Ways Decluttering Changed My Life”  post, but clutter triggers my anxiety. Clutter makes me feel trapped and claustrophobic; Dirty and cluttered homes stress me out and it took me a long time to realize that this was my problem. This anxiety has guided me towards a more simple lifestyle. Minimalism gets a bad rap for being too trendy, classist, and unachievable. Many forms of minimalism is this. Although, more generally minimalism is not a strict by-the-books lifestyle. Many people on both sides of the minimalism argument want you to believe it is but in reality, minimalism is what you make it and how…

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    How to Say “No” to Selfish Friends

    October 21, 2018
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    Learn How To Say and Practice Saying “No”

    November 6, 2019
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    Why it Should be Okay to be an “Attention Seeker”

    October 27, 2018
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    Breast Reduction Series

    Why I’m Not Afraid of Talking About My Breast Reduction Publicly

    July 29, 2019 /

    As I have said in my many posts about my breast reduction, I think it’s important for me to talk about it. In fact, I think it’s one of the most important things I am doing right now. I have stated in the past that I struggled to find good information and content on breast reductions when I was looking into the surgery, and that’s why I share so much about mine after the fact. This post isn’t very long and I don’t have any photos to share at this time, so bear with me.  As a teenager, I wanted to know everything I could about the surgery, but also…

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    July 8, 2018

    Breast Reduction: Fear, Excitement, and the Process

    December 30, 2017

    5 Things That Changed After My Breast Reduction

    January 29, 2018
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    Habits,  Uncategorized

    Make it a Habit: How To Consume Media Critically and Carefully

    July 22, 2019 /

    As we get closer to the 2020 election and potential presidential candidates are out campaigning, we are sure to start hearing conflicting stories, dissenting opinions, and mudslinging (something that has happened for hundreds of years in politics). I am someone who works in media (broadcast, and now formerly print) and consumes media, I can confidently say that how we consume media and where we get it is important to how we form opinions and arguments (which are not the same thing BTW). Something I hear all the time in class, at work, and in social settings is that the media is evil and has an agenda. While yes there is…

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    April 3, 2019
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    My Skin Care Routine After Nexplanon.

    August 29, 2020
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    How To Read More Often

    August 31, 2018
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    College Series

    I Graduated College? Now what?

    July 16, 2019 /

    I haven’t posted since April, which is quite a long time, but I have my reasons and I also know that those reasons are no longer an issue. So back in June, I walked in commencement and “graduated.” I didn’t actually graduate. But I will! I hadn’t completed an internship yet so I technically couldn’t graduate at commencement, but I am completing my internship over this summer and will graduate upon its completion in August. When I first started college I wanted to graduate in four years without taking summer terms. Well, that didn’t happen. I’m a little over five years in (not counting the college courses I took in…

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    I Spent 10 Days in Paris For $3,000 and Got College Credit

    March 4, 2018
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    How to be a Good Roommate

    July 1, 2018
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    Roommates: How to Look For Them and How to Pick One

    April 24, 2018
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    Habits

    Nail Biting Habit Update: Taking a Break From Gel Manicures

    April 3, 2019 /

    When I began trying to break my nail biting habit back in August of 2018, I got my first gel manicure. Up until March 15th, I had only seen my bare nails when my amazing nail artist Marie was taking the old gel off and putting on new gel. This last manicure, my nails started to chip, flake and peel right away; which is strange considering I could go four weeks before without even a tiny chip or break. When I went in, I let her know what was going on and she was shocked too. I had heard that getting gel manicures back to back is not good for…

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    I’m Kicking My Phone Addiction

    August 25, 2018

    Phone Addiction Update: Week one

    September 1, 2018
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