Canceled

March 16, 2021 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Family, Friendship, Positivity cancel culture, canceled, cancelled, friendships, happiness, love, positivity

Cancel Me. After all, it seems to be like the new thing everyone is clamoring for when anything controversial or even a differing of opinions arises. While I vehemently agree that there is no room for hateful, derogatory, inflammatory, crude, racist, sexist, and downright disgusting thoughts, behaviors, comments, and actions, I also believe that not […]

Hi, Ho Silver

January 26, 2021 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Friendship, Overcoming Adversity bjj, diet, goals, nutrition, self control, self discipline, success

You can lead a horse to water, but you can not make it drink. There has been an awful amount of time lately where I have been feeling like the world’s crappiest cowboy, shepherding a multitude of horses to the trough, only for them to whinny and thrash about because they are thirsty, yet refusing […]

Make the Fight Unfair

January 19, 2021 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Competing, Overcoming Adversity bjj, equality, fairness, Jiu Jitsu, size

Whenever I’ve been fortunate enough to teach a seminar, or a private lesson, or even just a class, I always have the same advice every single time; make the fight as unfair as humanly possible. I do not mean to cheat, or use cheap tricks, or any sort of underhanded techniques. No, what I mean […]

Slow & Steady Wins the Race

December 8, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, self confidence, Teaching bjj, fighting, Injuries, kindness, patience, perseverance, satsfaction

Patience may be a virtue, the moral compass we should all strive to adhere the quality for, but it is also harder to master than a 300 pound blue belt learning to berimbolo. Think about it. If patience was so easily attainable, New Year’s resolutions wouldn’t exist. There wouldn’t be an influx of new gym […]

F*ck Your Feelings

October 13, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Family, Friendship, love, mental health emotions, feelings, negativity, positivity, tough love

Feelings are often attributed to what makes us human in life, the sole connector to our minds, body, soul, and spirit. But emotions are flawed and fickle; they can cloud our judgment and trigger inflammatory responses and knee jerk reactions and dilute our thought process. It’s a never-ending battle that exists within us, choosing between […]

Guilty as Charged

September 1, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Family, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Teaching bjj, improve, mental health, MMA, self reflection, toxic

What’s your toxic trait? This is something I’ve been trying self reflect a lot on lately. We are always so focused on the ways in which we have been wronged and the people who have treated us poorly that we can tend to gloss over the internal conflicts causing chaos within ourselves. “Until people take […]

Sometimes, You’re the Pigeon-Sometimes, the Statue

August 4, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Family, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity Anxiety, Depression, happiness, health, mental health, sleep, trying

I really need sleep. It’s amazing how when our natural circadian rhythm or our REM cycle is off, how much less progressively we function in life. Lo and behold, I can hear someone overtly breathing in my presence with little sleep and I am likely to implode under the bottled anger pent up in my […]

A Work in Progress

July 28, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Family, Friendship bjj, family, mental health, MMA, relaxation, rest, rest day

It’s been a rough week, mentally, physically, and spiritually. I really hate to complain when I feel exceptionally fortunate to be able to pursue my dreams and strive for great accomplishments, but this does not mean an overworked, burnt out feeling ever escapes me or that every day I wake up feeling ready to tackle […]

I’d Rather Be The Hunter Than The Prey

July 21, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, self confidence, Teaching adaptability, evolution, hunter, savage, strength, survival

Don’t be the person out here wearing Milk Bone shorts in a dog eat dog world where you were lied to about someone’s bark being worse than their bite. People are encircling you and licking their lips at the chance to eat you alive and you’re galavanting about in Lady Gaga’s meat suit looking like […]

Agree to Disagree

June 23, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Family, Friendship, Positivity, Teaching hatred, internet, learning, negativity, online, opinions, positivity, social media

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we can disagree about something and have opposing viewpoints and still remain friends, acquaintances, or at least cordial to one another. We live in a day and age where civility seems to go out the window when two people fall on opposite sides of the fences […]

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