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My Interview With Pittsburgh City Councilman Dan Gilman
After the election I felt pretty disheartened about our current political climate. Not simply because 'my side lost' but rather because I felt like for the most part people wanted to just sit back and...
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Having Difficult Conversations
Talking about grief is never easy. Perhaps that's why we don't talk about it. I mean like at all. For me, I think it was always this fear that I projected onto to others that I would make them sad if...
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America's Fascination With American Crime Story
With the newest installment of American Crime Story, American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace debuting of FX this week it has many fans asking the question: Will it mesmerize...
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The Renewal of '13 Reasons Why' For A Third Season And Its Cultural Relevance
With the second season barely having a chance to settle into its streaming home, Netflix has renewed controversial teen drama'13 Reasons Why'for third season. And while the renewal comes on the heels...
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Netflix Series And Movies I'm Obsessed With
In the vast world of streaming services, web series, and tons of cable shows(for those of us who still overpay for a bunch of channels we don't use) it can be hard to sift through all the content out...
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The Triumphant?? Return of Reality by Rach-My Marathon Journey
"Let's go for a run" is a phrase you'd absolutely 100% never hear me say! I hated - no, what's stronger than hate - loathed running. So you can imagine the shock of those around me -and honestly, I...
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How the Burden of Perfectionism Is Ruining Millennials
Something I've wanted to address on the blog for a while now are a lot of the myths and some of the truths surrounding Millennials. And while I'm more at the tail end of this demographic, being in my...
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Using Fitness to Help Control Anxiety: A Series on Tackling Anxiety
One of the things I've been working on over the past few years is finding ways to cope with my anxiety. Honestly, I've probably always been a little anxious, even as a kid. But that definitely got...
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Having A Solid Morning Routine: A Series on Tackling Anxiety
Mornings can be tough to get a handle on especially if you're not a morning person, like myself! But one realization I've made over the past few years is how vital a morning routine is to helping with...
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How Going To Therapy Changed my Life: A Series on Tackling Anxiety
In my final post in my series on tackling anxiety I wanted to open up about my experience with therapy. So let me back up a little here. After losing both my parents within a few years of one another...
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RBR Trailer Roundup August 21st
Guys, first off thank you so so much for your kind words and responses to my most recent posts where I opened up about my anxiety. It means so much and continues to prove that we're not alone in our...
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RBR Book Recommendations
I wanted to hop on the blog real quick here to write a complimentary piece to one my recent podcast episodes where I give some book recommendations. I know for myself, it's nice sometimes to have a...
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What to Watch During the Quarantine
As we find ourselves in unprecedented times and stuck inside our houses for an extended period of time I wanted to offer a list of things I've been watching in hopes that it will get you through this...
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Tips for Finding Some Structure During a Pandemic
So it’s clear by now that we are living in unprecedented times; So how do we cope with our new ‘normal’? We’re working from home, spending WAY more time around our partners than we ever could have...
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How to Navigate Working from Home with Your Partner
With the Coronavirus having the majority of us working from home not only does this pose the challenge of learning to be productive and accomplish getting your work done in a whole new environment but...
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How to Pass the Time During a Pandemic
With the newly-found amount of free available to us during this quarantine, I have no doubt many of you may be asking, “What the heck do I do now that every minute of my day isn’t packed??!” Well,...
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The Fight to Reconnect: Life During the Pandemic
Photo Courtesy The Cleveland ClinicIt seems that nowadays we have more of a desire than ever to connect with our friends and loved ones. In a world where we previously took for granted that we’d be...
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What is it About Grief that makes us Search for Control?
Photo Courtesy Getty Images/ TIMEDuring a recent conversation with a podcast guest they brought up this interesting point about how experiencing grief makes you want to have a sense of control in your...
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The Shifting Emotions of Grief
Photo Courtesy HealthlineI didn’t think it was possible to hate an entire month but somehow May manages to be a real shithole. Not only was my Mom taken from this month but ironically, she was also...
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The Only Black Girl in the Room
Photo credit @bruthadaveI suppose the main purpose of this post is to sort of do my best to describe my experience navigating growing up in my formative years not really identifying as black or white....
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The Importance of Pressing Pause
With everything that is going on in the world around us I wanted to take a moment to reflect and encourage those of you reading this to just, pause. The world of course has always been spinning around...
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How We Can Use Social Media for Good
This is something that's been on my mind as of late. Seeing so many people in my social network post about how they need beaks from social media and how they feel so much better and so much more...
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How Creating Art and Following My Passion Helped My Mental Health
"Do what you LOVE and you N E V E R work a day in your life." That's what they say right? Now I don't know about all of that because I work the majority of my between content creation and freelance...
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Why is it so Difficult to Treat Ourselves with Kindness??
Why is it so hard to treat ourselves with kindness? My Therapist once said to me, "You wouldn't say that to a friend who was struggling. So why would you say that about yourself?" And it's true,...
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The Burnt Out Millennial
The Burnt Out MillennialMillennials...we're this Generation with so much advantage; Technology at our fingertips, voice controlled lights the latest movies streaming on our tv's so that we can enjoy...
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