personal growth

To negate all the bad luck I feared was coming my way simply for having so many wonderful people in my life, I felt the need to be perfect at everything I did — to work myself in circles so that I would be deserving of them.

There’s so much good and bad to unpack, but I won’t bore you with the particulars. Even though I felt like I was being thrown back and forth a lot, I managed to make it through all right – and I’ve learned some valuable lessons along the way.

I have been saved from different things at different points in my life. Funnily enough, none of those moments involved Prince Charming.

In my self-imposed isolation, it felt inappropriate to ask for a hand to hold. Growing up in a culture where conversation about emotions were rare, opening that door felt close to impossible.

I felt like I was in a constant battle between what I knew in my head was best for me and what my heart screamed at me to do, which was to tell him I had made a mistake, that I wanted him back in my life, that I still cared.

As the year comes to an end, I want to take the time to reflect by writing down some pieces of advice that I had been given by my friends and family.

In hopes I would find my creativity, I decided to challenge myself: 200 words a day for five days, and it didn't quite go as planned — but does it ever?

As much as I wanted to have a “hot girl summer," I’m too tired. I decided I would have my own type of summer: a healing girl summer.

Being stuck indoors can make us feel stuck in our path toward personal growth. We should all use any spare time we may have to focus on our personal development; with this in mind, we at the Clog have compiled four ways you can continue to grow remotely.