I waited for people to accept me just the way I was when I didn’t even accept myself. The blog post below is derived from my own personal lived experience with mental health and wellbeing. Mental health is highly individualistic…
Physical Activity and the Awareness-Action Gap
In the past week I have conducted an (informal) survey of first-year undergraduate students. Shout out to everyone who answered my umpteen questions, despite being generally overwhelmed with work! You have made possible the pursuit of truth. Two broad categories…
It’s complicated: How my relationship with my body has evolved
I’ve always had a complicated relationship with my body. I remember crying my eyes out after stepping on the scale, the number making me feel worthless and ashamed--I was only 12 years old. My body didn’t resemble the ones I…