January 14, 2021Work, Ambition & Unemployment7 min read
Work-Life Balance.
2020 brought a lot of lessons, with one being the importance of maintaining a proper work-life balance. Those of us who were fortunate enough to keep our jobs during the…
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April 18, 2022Boundaries5 min read
Setting Boundaries With People & Things In your Life
\\This is an excerpt from a chapter on boundary setting in my upcoming book\\ You're going to have people or things in your life that probably make it easy to let your…
October 15, 2019Mental Health & Self-Worth4 min read
My state of mental health: dealing with anxiety and stress.
When writing these blog posts, I usually try to describe the problems I'm going through but then provide the reader with solutions. I don’t ever want to come off with…
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