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Oh don’t mind me. I’m just over here processin Oh don’t mind me. I’m just over here processing a bit of nostalgia. 💭 A little over two years ago I sold all my belongings and decided with an unnerving amount of determination that I was going to travel full time and really pursue my dreams. 💭 I received my degree in photojournalism and this had been my goal for years but so so many things held me back and beat me down. 💭 I suddenly found myself exploring Portugal on my first stop. I was there for a month or so and I can’t even begin to tell you how much I fell in love with this country. 💭 Portugal holds an insane amount of culture, beauty, and a plethora of delicious foods along with some of the most picturesque little towns I’ve ever visited. 💭 I’ve kept going back to Portugal many many times and now that I am stationary for the foreseeable future I find myself reminiscing about this magical little country. 💭 What types of places are you reminiscing about these days?
I was raised pretty conservative and something I h I was raised pretty conservative and something I heard from older generations often was that I would get more conservative as I got older. So I thought now would be a perfect time to see how that’s developing. 🙃 Let’s do an inventory check, shall we? ✅ I believe womxn can be sexy and powerful and don’t need to downplay our own sexuality to be taken seriously. 💁🏼‍♀️ I believe the LGBTQIAP+ community deserves equal rights regardless of your religious beliefs. 🌈 I believe the two party system in the US is a failure and needs to be re-evaluated, annnnd the electoral college needs to go. 💣 I believe that the Black community deserves reparations & justice and I will continue to support Black Lives Matter in every way I can. 📰 I believe no Human is illegal. ✨ I believe missionary trips are a modern day form of colonialism. 💫 I believe the Indigenous peoples in the US deserve reparations & justice and I will continue to spread awareness about MMIW. 🌿 I believe in socialism. 🗣 I believe in science. 🧪 I believe that womxn should be able to make their own decisions about their bodies. 💃 I believe that Mental Health issues do not come with shame and they are legitimate medical issues that deserve to be treated as such. 🧠 I believe that people with disabilities or differently abled people deserve to be treated with the same respect and access to things we give everyone else. 🌻 I believe healthcare and education should be free. 🌱 Hmmm, I don’t know but it certainly feels that as I get older my views have gotten more and more liberal. 🤔 I hope that if you find yourself disagreeing with any of these basic human rights on my page you just see yourself out. ☮️
I’ve been wanting to post something for ages now I’ve been wanting to post something for ages now but every time I would start something I felt stuck... lost... it felt inadequate. I have been in the states for almost four months now and each day I have to fight the discouraging emotions that come with being here. The feelings of failure of finding myself back where I started years ago. But the reality is that the travel industry took a massive nose-dive, my motivation and mental health did too. I stoped posting on my Instagram ages ago and I haven’t written or posted a blog post in who knows how long. Like so many others everything I had planned or was looking forward to in 2020 was cancelled and put on hold along with all my work. I returned to New Mexico after my family asked me to come home. I am now in the States for the foreseeable future and have been trying to figure out what the hell to do because I just can’t see myself continuing to post my normal content. It just doesn’t feel right, at least not at the moment. I don’t want to just post this as a complaint but more so you all are aware and maybe take a moment to even check in with yourselves or a friend. None of us have ever been through something like this before and so many have lost jobs, health, friends or family, our income and our sense of stability. This is a really difficult time for so many reasons for those of us who do struggle with our mental health, so I encourage you to be gentle with yourself and be kind to others. I am definitely working on this myself and I am working through so much in my life right now in addition to learning and absorbing everything I can to also address my own white privilege in the midst of the movements happening. Take a break when you need it 😴 Drink some water💧 Remember to Breathe 🌬 Walk Barefoot outside 🦶 Read a good book 📚 Talk to a friend ☎️ Spend some time in nature 🌱
#BlackoutTuesday BLACK LIVES MATTER! #Theshowmustb #BlackoutTuesday BLACK LIVES MATTER! #Theshowmustbepaused
It's our responsibility as Global Citizens to prot It's our responsibility as Global Citizens to protect each other from the further spread of the virus.⁣ ⁣ We can do our individual parts by protecting our respective nations and the nations or others from having overwhelmed healthcare systems and avoidable deaths in their most vulnerable populations by Staying Home.⁣ ⁣ "For the elderly who can't enjoy the luxury of going outside without endangering themselves" -Gigi⁣ ⁣ "We need you healthy and alive" -Edem⁣ ⁣ “For children and babies with underdeveloped and compromised immune systems.” -Ashley⁣ ⁣ "So healthcare workers and first responders can have reprieve from being on the frontlines of the pandemic sooner rather than later and in hopes my 99 year old abuela and all other loved ones can avoid becoming victims of COVID-19" -Kira⁣ ⁣ “For the high risk individuals already living with respiratory complications" -Coco⁣ ⁣ "Just be still" -Gabby⁣ ⁣ "We are waves of the same ocean" -Diedre⁣ ⁣ "Enjoy this time, pick up a hobby like knitting. Play online scrabble with a friend. Write that business plan. Learn a new language" -Lisa⁣ ⁣ Do your part and please STAY HOME!
I wasn’t going to comment on the current affairs I wasn’t going to comment on the current affairs right now on my website but I felt it was probably necessary seeing as my timely post about Mental health Stigmas (link in bio) had been something on my mind a lot lately. Right now there is a lot of fear. I understand that for some people it doesn’t seem like a big deal and for others it is panic-inducing. Since I have zero training or background in the medical or scientific field, I will not write the information or facts about it because you can find it on the WHO website which I highly recommend everyone keeps an eye on. I will, however, comment on the need now, more than ever for compassion. Everyone deals with these situations and stress in our own unique ways. For me personally, as I already struggle with anxiety, depression and a strong tendency to over-think everything single thing in my life, it’s been a difficult time for me to find that inner peace and balance in what FACTUAL information I am reading and the general concern of the masses. I think it should be taken seriously and I have chosen to stay put and self-isolate but I think it’s also important to remember to have compassion for our neighbors when/if they freak out. It’s important to have compassion with ourselves if we find ourselves panicking and it’s important to have compassion and remember this isn’t something that will only affect us. If you are healthy, have health insurance and the ability to take time off of work without getting behind on your bills, remember that is a privilege and many many others may not have this privilege. Carry Compassion with you everywhere! 💕

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