The #thatgirl trend on TikTok and Instagram is hustle culture repackaged for millennial and Gen Z audiences Who is #thatgirl? A trending piano audio clip, a sun-filled bedroom with shadows dancing on the walls, a perfectly manicured hand turns off the 5:00 am alarm. You’re in # thatgirl’s bedroom, about to get a glimpse into …
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For as long as I remember, self-worth has been an intangible and elusive thing. The experience of being a woman is that your self-worth lies in some hidden, secret place and you spend your life like Indiana fricking Jones, looking for it. We throw spaghetti at the wall, hoping something will stick, the treasure map …
In second grade I came home from school with an A on a math test. Math was a subject I struggled with as a young child, needing extra help and even tutoring in the subject from an early age. What can I say, my brain is just more wired towards words I guess? So, getting …
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It’s that time of year again. The time when our social media feeds are inundated with collages of people talking about the year’s achievements. Like clockwork, every year I too look back on my year’s highlight reel, ignore the hard times and setbacks, slap a good filter on said highlight reel and join in on …
In Brussels’ Musee des Beaux Arts, hangs a painting titled – Landscape and the Fall of Icarus, commonly thought to be the work of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting boasts a tranquil scene of peasant life – a farmer tilling the land, a shepherd with his sheep, a calm, …
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Modern life is designed to push our buttons and trigger anxiety. Throw a global pandemic and lockdowns into the mix, and a global mental health crisis becomes a disaster. Managing anxiety and keeping a handle on negative emotions is more important now than it’s ever been. And while we may have adapted our lifestyles to …
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