Life. No matter what happens or any of the circumstances, it keeps on going on. Though your world may stop, everyone else’s keeps on turning on its axis, and that’s just the way it is. All of a sudden, you’re looking back, and just wondering where all of the time has gone. Like the butterfly […]
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Samantha Schell Adaptation, Perseverance, Positivity greatness, happiness, karma, manifest, negativity, positivity
I write so often about all the struggles I endure or the bad experiences I deal with, that I forget about all of the wonderful stuff too when I focus too much on the negative. And I am so happy to be writing that I have had a fantastic week, full of truly humbling and […]
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Samantha Schell Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity beautiful, beauty standards, confidence 5
Y’all, it’s truly crazy the eras and phases my mind, body, and spirit have gone through over the past 3 decades, and the future arcs I will enter going forward. In early adolescence, it was all about lack of self-assuredness and shame over my body. The last of my friends to flourish and bullied by […]
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Samantha Schell Adaptation, Friendship, mental health, Overcoming Adversity alone, mental health, positivity, rising above, strength, together
I worked so hard growing up never to stand out. I wanted to blend right in so I wouldn’t be differentiated and then subjected to scrutiny and ridicule. Never alone, but always amongst others where I could camouflage myself in the crowd. Early on in childhood, I pushed hard to excel and stand out. Then, […]
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Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Family, love Anxiety, bjj, competition anxiety, family, love, marriage, mental health 5
Everyone who has ever read my blogs can be 100% sure of at least 2 things. The first being that although I fight in a cage and grapple on the mats, I’m still a human being with a wide array of feelings, many correlating to those of anxiety, and I get sad and nervous just […]
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