Category: Personal Yaps
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Curves, Clarity, and Zero Apologies: A Goddess’s Guide to Self-Love
Full disclosure: this is a topic that is very near and dear to my heart. Anything for breaking beauty standards and empowering women, amirite?! Shoutout to all my fellow curvy girls! This one’s for you. 🫶🏻 I’m highly aware that whether you’re on the slimmer side or the voluptuous side, or even the muscular side,…
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The Right Person
I’ve always wondered what it would be like. To be with the right person. Essay upon essay, I diligently wrote down my asks – who I sought and what I sought. Since 2011, I fantasized, dreamed, and hoped. Would it be in the way they speak? The way they carry themselves? The way their eyes…
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What Unconditional Love Really Looks Like: Lessons from Life and Relationships
Ah, love. What is life without it? As someone who loves love, I can’t help but feel obligated to write about the topic. And I won’t be treading lightly. Trust and believe this is going to be a deep one. Rightfully so. I think it’s fair to say that I’ve been on earth for quite…
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Getting Real About Turning 30
I used to think turning 30 was one of the worst milestones in life. It isn’t that hard to, especially with the media and society’s general obsession with youth. “Live fast, die young, and have a good-looking corpse,” was what the author, Willard Motley, said in his book, Knock on Any Door. There was even…
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Why We Must Embrace the Cycle of Winging It
Life, as we all know, is cyclical. We’re born into this world without any expectations until we enter the endless cycle of falling down and getting back up again (literally and figuratively). As the Japanese proverb goes, “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.“ Our lives are mostly composed of that cycle, where we’re taught…
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Pursuing Dreams: What It Means Then and Now
Not to give you an existential crisis early on in this post, but what IS your biggest dream? Really think about it. Sit on it. Don’t worry if it’s challenging, you’re probably not alone. You see, when we were children, it was so easy for us to answer this question, because our parents (well, mine,…
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Taking the Road Less Traveled by
Primary photo credit: Jens Lelie on Unsplash.com Gotta start somewhere, right? Ever since I decided to take that one step out of my comfort zone–without any guaranteed security or stability down the line–I’ve been in limbo. This weird in-between place with a looooooong ass transitional bridge where I’m able to look back at my old life and…
Bella Dyosa 