girlhood

My girlhood is my safe place. My girlhood is where I can feel desired and innocent. My girlhood is the fictional places in my mind from the stories I read. My girlhood is the feelings between lyrics in a song. My girlhood is a place where I can be whoever I want to be. I get to pick the story that I share to others. Without knowing who I am, I get to pick who I choose to be because of my girlhood. I can be delicate and powerful. I can make my own choices and stand by them. My girlhood is my strength. Except, at the end of the day, I am just a girl and my girlhood is just a place I made up in my mind. In the real world I am a girl made of pain. Physically us girls are created with pain, it is inevitable, period pains, childbirth, sore boobs. The world has caused us mental pain that we dare not show. We are told to calm down and we cannot lose control. We need to keep our feelings, appetite, sexuality, dreams in check. Keep it to ourselves. Do not let it out, until it bene...

You may have clicked this blog post with the idea that I would give a step-by-step guide on how to get over losing friendship, but you would be wrong. Sorry. Being a girl in your 20s while trying to maintain friendships is hard. It is time consuming, takes lots of energy, and is mentally draining. With that being said, it is still extremely hard to lose friends in this time of life. Everything is already so confusing, and friendship is what makes up most of our being at this time period, so when you have to take a step back from a friend it hurts.  I currently lost a group of friends that I really cared about and envisioned them being in my life long term. Change is hard in all aspects, but It is better to let go of what is holding you back. You can't keep someone in your life when they don't bring positivity to you.  Something that has helped me a lot during this is leaning on my friends that do have my best interest at heart. I know this may seem confusing, lo...

  Summer Book Recommendations  There is nothing quite like reading a good book in the sun! I want to share some amazing books that I have personally read and believe should be talked about. A little backstory on my reading history is that I read for entertainment, it is my favorite hobby. I read a majority of romance books with a hint of some mystery/thriller, literary-fiction, and fantasy stories. However, summer screams romance books!  p.s. the blue titles are links that lead you to amazon where you can purchase each book! Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez Just for the Summer is Abby Jimenez's newest release, and is a part of a standalone interconnected series. The main characters of this story both have the same "curse" when it comes to their love life. Everyone that they end up dating go off to find their soulmate the second they break up. They find each other through a reddit posts and decide to try and break the curse by dating each other, with the end g...