Suicide awareness
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7 Years
They say your body completely regenerates every 7 years. With the exceptions of some major organs, you are a brand new human being every 7 years. Every year on July 20, I get a tattoo on the anniversary of my rape. I know some think that’s stupid- why remind yourself?…
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Thirty, flirty and thriving
Or well…maybe just 30! Flirty…no, thriving…not so much. But hey, gotta represent early 00’s rom coms! It’s here. I am officially 30. I graduated high school almost 13 years ago. While I am still in denial that I am 30, it’s not like my 20’s were super fun. So I…
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Come Meet My Pets! (Part 1)
Hello! Today I will introduce my pets- both past and present ( don’t worry, there’s only 4). We will start with my first significant pet ever (and the one with the biggest impact)- my dog Tango. I had hermit crabs and a lizard and animals like that earlier in my…
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Cutting out the toxic
Linkin Park said it best in “Burning in the Skies” “Oh, I’m swimming in the smokeOf bridges I have burnedSo don’t apologizeI’m losing what I don’t deserve” I think one of the hardest things for me was realizing that you CAN cut toxic people, friends, jobs, even family out of…
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Picking Up The Pieces
Today is December 5 2022. My goal was to be 150lbs by my 30th birthday on January 9 2023. Well, that isn’t going to happen. Between job changes, medication changes, thoughts of suicide and just an overwhelming amount of stress in the past 5 months I completely fell apart. I…
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Who am I and what is the point of this?
Hello! I’m Shelley. I am 32, and I live in Colorado in the US. This started as a weight loss blog but has now changed into a weight loss/mental health/fixing my life blog. I’m using this as a way of therapy to try and get through past traumas that I…
Body and Mind Under Construction 