Friendships are a bank account. And when you continue to overdraw your bank account, it is terminated. Why shouldn’t friendships? Toxic friends overdraw your friendship account over and over again, and it’s finally time to close your account. Over the years I’ve seen a multitude of different therapists. Each one tells me the same thing: Get rid of that toxic friend. My naturally helpful, here-for-the-underdog personality has given me a handful of toxic friends who continue to

Adulthood is weird. You have to work to live, you have bills, your metabolism is now a laugh, and making friends is hard. Unless you have a workplace or a social activity filled with similar minds, it’s hard to meet people. You have to really put yourself out there to create friendships, and even more effort needs to go in to maintain them. That is hard! As a new adult in the world, I am discovering this and am finding myself in a slump while I seek brunch buds and shopping p

One of my biggest goals in 2017 is to spread kindness, and one of the best ways to do this is to show I care about the people in my life. And they don’t have to be big gestures. Sometimes the smallest actions speak the loudest. Today I am going to share 10 tiny ways to show people you care about them, so we can all feel kindness. Remember to spread love, all the time, even when it’s easier to hate. 10 Tiny Gestures of Kindness 1. Notes Send a postcard or simply slip something

This past weekend was one of the best I’ve had in a while because I got to see two of my favourite people. And seeing them both back-to-back really opened my eyes to friendship, relationships, and how they relate to me. The first friend I saw I’ve known for about a decade and has been one of the people closest to me for the last four years. She’s seen all of my ups and downs and knows how much I’ve changed. She knows me from before college, to the person I was during my year

I will start this out saying I am not a perfect friend. And I will continue that by saying that while I am not the perfect friend, I do have some pretty high standards for the people I keep close relationships to. It all comes down to self-worth and the higher your self-worth is the better company you want to keep. And that’s why recently I’ve been sorting through good and bad friends in hope of keeping my circle up with my own self-worth. First off, there are varying tiers o

Don’t forget to enter my giveaway ending next week – click here to enter! __________________________________________________________ Hello Enthusiasts! I hope you are all having a wonderful week. I know I am! This week my third article was published on Huffington Post Teen and as it is an article that means a lot to me and tells a story that I want to share with you, I thought I would also post the article here (it’s after the jump.) I hope you enjoy reading and feedback is a

After a recent spat with a friend, what friendship means to me (and what I look for in a friend) has been on my mind quite a bit. From years of gaining and losing friends, watching endless numbers of films, and just observing how the world goes through other forms of art and stories, we learn how we want to be treated. By the time we are teenagers, or even later depending on the individual, we know ourselves pretty well to know how we want our lives to go. We understand the t

Today during my Honors English II class we started to redo our explanative speeches from last year for those who received low scores. Halfway through, I turned to my friend and started to talk about the speech I had given, which had been about what friendship is. The two of us (my friend and I) talked about this subject for awhile and it made me think that friendship is a great many things. As my friend and I agreed, friendship is sitting in silence for an hour together and n

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are ~ Unknown No matter where I might be, or who I might be with, or whatever emotion I might be feeling, friends are always there. Honestly, they are the greatest of them all. I am blessed with the most amazing friends in the world. Honestly, they are so amazing and I look to the heavens to think about how truly lucky I am. They make my day better when no one else can, th