Category: Blog

How to inspire your family and friends to go vegan.

I have been vegan for eight years and managed to get my father to go vegan and my sister to eat mainly plant-based. While that sounds like very few people, it actually wasn’t that easy. It started fairly innocent, really. I discovered veganism and was so excited about the whole thing that I wanted everyone…

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How antipsychotics and antidepressants saved my life.

It has been one year and five months since I started taking aripiprazole, and it has been ten months since I went on Prozac.  These past year has been the best for my mental health since I can remember. Not just because of medicine, but because I truly found what works for me on my…

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Dedicate yourself to your well-being.

Your recovery journey requires complete dedication from your side. It expects from you perseverance, vulnerability and openness.  You must open your heart to it. I found that when I wasn’t available to recover emotionally, I wasn’t improving. What was expected from me was an absolute dedication to my well-being. When I gave it, everything changed. …

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3 lessons acting school taught me.

Once upon a time, I was an aspiring actress. That is a lie, but I still pretended like I won an Oscar when I was going to acting school. It all started when I watched Kingsman. That movie changed my life because the second it finished I decided I wanted to be an actress. Like,…

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Stop comparing yourself to others.

I used to social media stalk my former schoolmates. Who hasn’t, right? But the thing is, I was comparing myself to them all the time. Many of them have children and families and live in houses. They have actual careers. I don’t. I never wanted kids and I live in an apartment that is falling…

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How to have your own Eat, Pray, Love adventure.

I just finished reading Eat, Pray, Love a few days ago. The book itself was good but what I loved most was how inspired I felt afterwards. Suddenly, I wanted nothing more than to go on my own adventure around the world. But since not everyone can afford to do this (myself included), I figured…

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