June 01, 2017

Hey ya'll!

Sorry for posting a day late, you'll see why in the video! This week we're talking about how being boldly truthful can be a source of empowerment not only for ourselves, 

May 24, 2017

Hola!

(You'll see why this greeting makes sense in the video.)

This week we tackle the subject of kindness in honesty. Social media has recently created a meme out of being "petty". Although this cultural phenomenon is disguised as brutal honesty for the sake of being funny, it's really bullying, and millennials can benefit from learning how to 

May 17, 2017

I AM ALIVE!

I am so sorry for not posting last week! I should make no excuses, but it was finals week and I was moving into my first apartment (!!!!), so I had very little time to write or film anything. But I am back and super excited to dive into Honesty...

May 02, 2017

Why do we lie?

Over the last semester, I have taken a class in conflict resolution at my university. In the class, we’ve taken an in-depth look at deception, studying why people choose to withhold or twist information in everyday life. Sometimes it’s about saving face,...

April 26, 2017

Hey ya'll!

Today I talk about what no one wants to talk about on the internet: my latest love life fail.

As I state in the video, I have nothing but respect for "Drew". He was incredibly kind to me through the entire thing, and continues to be someone I look up to. Makin...

April 18, 2017

Hey ya'll! This week we continue talking about time with exploring strategies for time management. Although I am by no means a perfect-time-manager (is that a thing?), I do have some strategies for how to accomplish more in a day.

While I believe to-do lists and elimina...

April 11, 2017

Hey ya'll! Time for the first video of month 3!

As we mentioned last week, this month is all about time--how we manage it, use it, and abuse it. This week, we are focusing on how time affects anxiety. 

As a person with anxiety disorder, I am constantly looking for ways t...

April 05, 2017

Welcome to month 3 of A+ Life! This month, we’re focusing on a topic that’s both abstract and definite, endless and scarce, healing and harrowing...we’re talking about time.

As I just listed, time is the most contradictory gift we are given. Our perception of this gift...

March 28, 2017

Hey fam! This week you get a bonus video in which I have a bad hair day and no lipstick! But that's okay, CUZ IMPERFECTION AMIRITE?!

This week we're talking about women and the pressure they face through double standards in society. We tell girls to be a certain shape,...

March 21, 2017

Hey fam! 

Welcome to Week 3 of Imperfection, in which we talk about the myth of happy endings.

While I do believe it's possible to have beautiful, perfect moments, I don't believe in happily ever afters. For people dealing with mental illness, happiness is a state of...

March 14, 2017

Welcome to week 2 of Imperfection! This week we're tackling a subject that everyone hates--failure. 

Failure is the most discomforting, distress-causing, nausea-inducing experience there is. We avoid it, stress about it, and then fall into it inevitably, and then we sink lower than....

March 08, 2017

Welcome to month 2 of A+ Life! As we talked about last week, this month we're focusing on Imperfection, and today we'll be starting with talking about physical imperfections.

I have always been insecure about the way that I look. Learning to do my makeup has taught me t...

March 01, 2017

Greetings, All! Hope you're having a great day, because we’re about to talk about how awful we all are!

This is because March’s theme will be Imperfection, which is a subject I both love and loathe.

In the years I battled anxiety and depression, I was riddled with insecurities. I have always been an overachiever; to me, perfection was not the goal, it was the standard. In everything I pursued as a teen, whether it was theatre, a school project, a relationship, or a competition, I was never satisfied with being average. Everything needed to be meticulously rehearsed. Although my need for perfection has granted me many highs, it has also been the cause for almost all of my lows.

For example, I have been insecure about...

February 22, 2017

Welcome back! For the final chapter of our Relationship series, we're discussing how to form and maintain healthy friendships. For teens, finding great friends can be very challenging, especially when they're experiencing insecurities while simultaneously trying to imp...

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February 15, 2017

Welcome back to A+ Life! Today we continue our discussion about relationships by talking about the  benefits of being single.

In the media, single characters are often portrayed as being weak or evil. This sends the message to teens that to be single is...

February 13, 2017

You know about the A+ Life YouTube channel and blog, but did you know you can also hear from me on the radio?

I run a biweekly radio segment out of Wausau, Wisconsin that airs from 6:45-7:00 AM on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. You can listen to them...

February 08, 2017

Welcome to week one of A+ Life. This month's theme will be relationships--we will dissect the meaning of that word in many different ways, and explore the possibilities of teenage love--both good and bad.

January 29, 2017

Beginnings are hard.

I think things are most fragile when they're just starting out--humans, relationships, new businesses, big decisions--whatever it is, everything that has a beginning is prone to an ending. And that's what's scary about starting something new--not knowing if it will flourish on the first try or be blown away like a dandelion in the wind. Life is full of....

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