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Hi, I'm Julia ✨ Every week, I write about embracing a growth mindset as I navigate the journey to becoming the happiest, most fulfilled, and resilient version of myself. I hope my stories inspire you to keep growing. 🤍
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Learning to Rest Without Guilt (opens the original)
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Being sick is my worst nightmare.Obviously, no one likes feeling under the weather. But while some people enjoy an excuse to spend the day watching TV or reading, getting my daily dose of activity is crucial to my sanity.Over the last few years, my food chatter/disordered eating voice has quietened down a lot. But I’d be lying if I said it was fully gone.It doesn’t run my life like it used to, and I’m grateful for that. I can have a burger without it ruining my mood. I can go a day or two withou
Why are we so tolerant of bad love? (opens the original)
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Recently, it seems like the zeitgeist has been filled with dating horror story after dating horror story.Every friend I’ve caught up with in the last month has had some disappointing tale to tell, whether it be about cheating, constant fights, misogyny, or some other form of a toxic relationship.Then, while catching up on Love Is Blind: UK over the weekend and watching even more complicated relationships unfold, all of those conversations with friends came back to me.Together, they got me thinki
A Subtler Kind of Heartache (opens the original)
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Over the last couple years, I’ve written a lot about the hurt that comes from a breakup.Most of that has been about romantic breakups. Some of it has been about friendship breakups, which can be just as painful and sad in a different way.This week, one relationship in particular has had me reflecting a lot on a subtler kind of heartache—the pain of slowly growing away from a loved one.My boyfriend and I have had very opposite experiences when it comes to friendship. His main friend group, twenty
Love Is Great, But Is He a Value-Add? (opens the original)
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Nothing has been more intriguing to me than last year’s “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” trend.On the one hand, I get it. My girlfriends and I have all been in relationships where we were relegated to feeling like our boyfriends’ moms.All of us have full-time jobs. The last thing anyone needs around the house is someone who is messy, in a perpetual mood, and needs to be
Can’t Wait for a Lifetime of “Firsts” With You (opens the original)
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This week, my boyfriend and I ticked a big “first” off the list—we travelled across the country to visit friends and family, which meant our first plane ride together came and went.I couldn’t have been more excited. How someone travels is an important part of getting to know them, and I couldn’t wait to have that experience with him.We’ve been together for 9 months at this point, so we still have a lot of big events to experience together for the first time. We haven’t had a fall season together
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