I was 25 when my therapist diagnosed me with an eating disorder. I legit said to her, “But I’m not skinny!” And she said words that shattered my world in the best way possible: “You don’t have to be skinny in order to have an eating disorder.” This week has been national eating disorder awareness […]
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Stop judging people for how they look, how much they weigh, or how they are. Just don’t judge people. Don’t pass along mean comments about others because you never know what they are going through. Just be nice to people. There are so many mean, rude, and selfish people around, and it won’t cost you […]
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It’s a colorful darkness. Pitch black with lights flashing everywhere and fireworks. But exploding with words — some that I want to hear and some that I don’t. They’re screaming so loudly my ears ring, but I can still detect the whispers in the background, smug with their ability to trap me. Playing out conversations […]
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When you think of bees, you may think of them as some sort of nuisance, pestering you in the warmer months of the year. Yet bees are a crucial part to keeping our world’s food supply going — and bees aren’t the only ones working hard out there. There are many types of pollinators: bees, butterflies, […]
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Survivors can not be the only people concerned with this issue. Last year a documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival about the rampant occurrence of sexual assault on US college campuses and the covering up of these sexual crimes by college administrators. The subject matter of The Hunting Ground may be difficult to examine and […]
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In a general sense, everyone loves mail, don’t they? Maybe we don’t care for the sight of student loan due dates piling up on our computer desk or the sight of yet another credit card approval when we haven’t even applied for one in the first place. Still, nothing compares to the feeling of opening a […]
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A little over 100 years ago, Red Fox James, a Blackfoot Indian, set out on a horseback tour of the United States, determined to convince the states to proclaim a Native American day. He received endorsement from only twenty-four states, though, and no national day was recorded as being proclaimed. Before the coast-to-coast horseback ride, however, […]
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